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ROSES
Artist: J. F. PORTAELS |
A HIGH QUALITY PHOTOGRAVURE PRINTED IN THE 1880'S!!
PERFECT FOR FRAMING AS AN ART PRINT FOR YOUR DEN !!
VERY ANTIQUE & OLD WORLD LOOKING. ITEM(s) OVER 110 YEARS OLD!!
The suggestion of a sweet day-dream is in this picture. The attitude of the maiden who bends over and half buries her face in the exquisite mass of bloom, and the embroidered vine upon her quaint robe, following the line of the rose-stems, support the poetic illusion that she and the flowers have something in common. Why holds she the roses with so close a pressure and so absent a gaze, drawing their honeyed perfume into her very soul? Perhaps only half-consciously there is that in the maiden's heart of which roses are the emblem. Among the ancients this flower was sacred to the deities of love:
When Love first came to earth, the spring
Spread rose-buds to receive him.
The rose was likewise a symbol of silence, whence the expression, "Under the rose." They are silent who have a secret to guard. This solitary maiden, it may be, whispers to the flowers that which she would confide to no mortal ear, or scarce acknowledge to herself.
O rose, the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose, the joy of heaven!
Jean Francois Portaels, who is one of the most eminent of living Belgian painters, was born at Vilvorde in 1820. He studied under Navez at Brussels, under Delaroche at Paris, and at Antwerp, in 1842, obtainec the Prize of Rome. He has travelled extensively and has produced some effective pictures of Eastern scenes His Drought in Egypt is in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington. He excels as a portrait painter, and in sucl finely idealized single figures as that before us. He has also executed important works in fresco for churche; and other buildings. He is Director of the Brussels Academy; Member of the Academy at Antwerp, and Corn mander of the Order of Leopold.
SIZE: Image size in inches is 7" x 9", overall page size is 10 1/2 " x 16 1/2".
CONDITION: Condition is good. Nothing on reverse. Printed on thick, rag stock quality coated paper.
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