Le femme révées Ideal beauties ; Contemplation = contemplation / compose & lithog. par M. Alophe ; Imp. lith. de Jacomme & Cie. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Le femme révées Ideal beauties ; Contemplation = contemplation / compose & lithog. par M. Alophe ; Imp. lith. de Jacomme & Cie. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Le femme révées Ideal beauties ; Contemplation = contemplation / compose & lithog. par M. Alophe ; Imp. lith. de Jacomme & Cie.
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Titled "Contemplation" and headed in French "Les femmes rêvées," or "Ideal beauties," this color lithograph presents a pensive woman as a model of feminine ideals. M. Alophe composed and drew it, Jacomme & Cie printed it, and Goupil & Cie published it in Paris, Berlin, and New York around 1851. The three-city imprint shows how widely the firm's prints traveled in the mid-nineteenth century, when such images decorated middle-class parlors on both sides of the Atlantic. The copyright notice held by W. Schaus, a New York art dealer, marks the American side of that trade.
| Created / published | Paris ; Berlin ; New York : Publie par Goupil & Cie, c1851. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title from item. Copyright by W. Schaus. No. 269. |
| Subjects | Women--1850-1860. Reflections--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,810 × 4,697 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220609 |
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