I am selling four hand-colored Bosio prints that were aquired from the same family and have been put in identical size and type frames with matching mats from the early 1960's. See my other listings for the additional prints.

The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name laterna magica, is an early type of image projector that used pictures—paintings, prints, or photographs—on transparent plates (usually made of glass), one or more lenses, and a light source. Because a single lens inverts an image projected through it (as in the phenomenon which inverts the image of a camera obscura), slides were inserted upside down in the magic lantern, rendering the projected image correctly oriented. (description from Wikipedia)

Frame size 23 1/2” x 28”,  sight opening of the mat is 14” x 18 3/4”.  The print has not been examined outside the gilded wooden frame.

This print was framed in the early 1960's at the Rike-Kumler Company (commonly known as Rike's) was an American department store in Dayton, Ohio.  Purchased from the estate of the family originally from Ohio who owned these prints for over 50 years.

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Jean-François Bosio (1764–1827) was a French artist, born in Monaco. He spent some time in Milan, where he used the name Giovanni Battista Bosio.

Bosio was born in Monaco and studied under David. He contributed a considerable number of works to the Salon of 1793, including genre portraits, one depicting his wife playing the piano, and historical works. He showed rather fewer works in the salons of 1798, 1801 and 1804. A drawing of 1801, showing a dog demonstrating card tricks at a party, demonstrates the element of caricature in his work.

He was in Milan by 1807. His works there included a portrait of the French viceroy, Eugène de Beauharnais, and a large painting of the triumphal entry of General Domenico Pino into Milan through the Porta Romana in February 1806. He worked extensively in collaboration with the engraver Luigi Rados, who made plates of his portrait of Beauharnais, and engraved his I costumi di Milano e suoi circondar, a series of illustrations creating a modern Milanese equivalent version of Carracci's Cries of Bologna. He was a major contributor to the Serie di vite e ritratti de'famosi personaggi degli ultimi tempi, a three-volume collection of illustrated biographies published in Milan between 1815 and 1818. Working from existing likenesses, Bosio provided almost all the drawings for the first volume, and about half of those in the second. An inscription on a plate in the third volume indicates that he had already returned to Paris by the time it was drawn.

Following his return to France he drew genre scenes which were engraved for the Journal des Dames (1817), and portraits of soldiers which appeared in a Galerie militaire (1818). He showed three pictures, including a Death of the Virgin, at the Salon of 1819, and a full-length portrait Louis XVIII, painted for the Palais de Justice at Rouen, in 1822. He exhibited at the Salon for the last time in 1824, and died in 1827.

He wrote an drawing manual (Traité Élémentaire Des Règles Du Dessin), published in 1801, and held the chair of drawing at the Ecole Polytechnique.

His younger brother François Joseph Bosio was a successful sculptor, who was eventually created a baron by Charles X. (Source Wikipedia)

Louis Charles Ruotte was born in 1754 in the city of Paris, France. He died in London, England in 1806. He was a French stipple engraver by profession. And Ruotte specialized in still-life compositions of flowers. Before his own career launched, Ruotte was a pupil of Le Mire in Paris and a pupil of Bartolozzi in London during the year 1784. After Ruotte was done in working with Bartolozzi he returned to France, but eventually he moved back to England where he died in 1806 in London.