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US ($24.00 CDN) Quantity: 1 Dimensions: 12 1/2" X 9 1/2" Image 10 1/2" X 7 1/2" Description: Steel engraving from the Art Journal 1877. Painter: C.F. Jalabert Engraver: Gustave N. Bertinot
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| "The works of the old painters, their Madonnas, Holy Families, and somewhat kindred subjects, occasionally find imitators among modern Continental artists. It requires no great stretch of imagination to believe that M. Jalabert (a popular French artist and a pupil of Paul Delaroche) had been studying some old represntation of the Virgin and Child, or at least had it in his thoughts, when he applied himself to the composition of "The First Hope". This picture, seen among a number of works of the old masters on similar subjects, would not strike one as being out of place but for the mere accessories and the costume of the mother. She has been watching her infant - a fine, chubby fellow, by the way - asleep in its cradle; he has just awoke and his mother, laying aside the needlework on which she was engaged, lifts her darling out of its warm nest to caress him. Her countenance, seen in profile, is remarkably sweet in expression, and quite as suggestive of holiness and purity as half the Madonnas we have seen on canvas from the pencils of the old Italian masters; it is thoughtful and pensive too, as well as sweet..." (Art Journal 1877) | |||||
