Leon Bonnat "Don't Cry" 1800's Print of an Etching w/ a Pie Dough Frame

Description: Up for sale is a Leon Bonnat "Don't Cry/Non Piangere!" 1888 Printed Etching w/ a Pie Dough and wooden Frame. Antique etching on paper after the original by master etcher Paul-Adolphe Rajon (French, 1843-1888.) Circa 1881. Signed in the plate.The frame is 11 1/4" tall by 8 1/2" wide and the total weight is .67 lb. This belonged to my wife's grandparents who lived in Boise ID. Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned a bookshop.[1] While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old Masters, developing a passion for drawing. In Madrid he received his artistic training under Madrazo. He later worked in Paris, where he became known as a leading portraitist, never without a commission. His many portraits show the influence of Velázquez, Jusepe de Ribera and other Spanish masters, as well as Titian and Van Dyke, whose works he studied in the Prado, which placed him at the forefront of painting in France in the 1850s, opposing neoclassicism and academicism. Following the period in Spain, Bonnat worked the studios of the history painters Paul Delaroche and Leon Cogniet (1854) in Paris. Despite repeated attempts, he failed to win the prix de Rome, finally receiving only a second prize. However, a scholarship from his native Bayonne and support from the Personnaz family allowed him to spend three years in Rome (1858–60) independently where he and Antonin Personnaz became lifetime friends. During his stay in Rome, he also became friends with Edgar Degas, Gustave Moreau, Jean-Jacques Henner and the sculptor Henri Chapu.Paul-Adolphe Rajon (1843 Dijon – 8 June 1888 Auvers-sur-Oise, Val d’Oise) was a French painter and printmaker, who started his career as a photographer while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He etched both contemporary works and Old Masters as well as portraits, including ones of Ivan Turgenev, Théophile Gautier, J.S. Mill, Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Rajon was critically praised in France, England and the United States, through his acquaintance with the New York-based American print dealer Frederick Keppel.-Buyer pays for priority mail. Will ship on next business day after payment is received.I appreciate being paid within three days, please.I'm happy to combine shipping.International buyers please contact me for a shipping quote.International buyers are responsible for paying their countries custom fees.I practice leaving positive feedback.I guarantee customer satisfaction. Thanks! Paul On Oct-31-22 at 13:08:48 PDT, seller added the following information: Hello bidder and watchers, I'm going to close down this listing and then relist it. I unscrewed the end hardward out of the handled of the one handle where the hardware looked like it was missing a piece. When I got it unscrewed, I could see that other side of the yoke or fork was broken off. So, unless a new fork is welded on, this handle will not be functional. sorry folks for not exploring this better before I llisted it.Paul

Price: 35 USD

Location: Wapato, Washington

End Time: 2024-07-11T14:31:19.000Z

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