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US ($24.00 CDN) Quantity: 1 Dimensions: Print 9 1/2" X 12 1/2" Image 7" X 5" Description: Steel engraving from the Art Journal 1877. Painter: J.L. Meissonier Engraver: L.J. Rajan
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| "The dramatis personae are a group of soldiers who, by their picturesque costume, might serve to represent the civic guard of the seventeenth century; they are evidently not the ordinary troops of any government, neither is it a common guard house in which they have assembled to play; there is too much richness of architecture and too much suggestive of wealth in the furniture etc., (though it is not quite clear what one is to understand by the rather indefinite background on the left), to allow us to suppose that these military gamblers are in their usual quarters; they seem rather to have taken possession of some old chateau, and are making themselves perfectly at home in it; one of the men has flung himself on a bench, in the background to the right, and is apparently sleeping soundly." (Art Journal 1877) | |||||
