Description: “A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO” Artist: Gustave Courtois ____________ Engraver: Boussod, Valadon NOTE: The title in the box above is also in the white border below this scene. PRINT DATE: This photogravure was printed in 1888; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 8 x 11 ½ inches, image size is 6 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receive priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! PRINT DESCRIPTION: Gustave Courtois, the painter of our frontispiece, may be considered as one of the most successful and most esteemed of M. Gérôme's pupils. He is, at any rate, a living protest, if one were needed, against the constantly-expressed assumption that the “studio-system ’’ adopted abroad crushes all individuality out of the student, and renders him but a reflector, more or less weak, of his master’s manner and characteristics. In some cases, no doubt, the charge is true, but only where the young artist is too feeble to stand upon his own legs —when it is undeniably better that he should reproduce his teacher's virtues than his own incapacity. In “A Sword shall Pierce through thy own Soul also,” M. Courtois betrays little hint of the source of his education; the dignity and repose of M. Gérôme are here, but not the hardness or lack of sentiment, nor even the uncompromising precision of drawing and colour. That the artist has given us an entirely original version of the Virgin and Child— an Italian bambino and a French provinciale—we need care as little as M. Courtois; no more, indeed, than that, as the physiologist or the chiromancist would tell us, a lady with such a face and head as those here depicted could possess such strong and vigour-expressing hands. The sentiment of the tragedy, if not the dramatis persona, is here; and the fact that the picture was, in many respects, one of the finest in last year's Salon, will be a sufficient recommendation to our readers.
Price: 23.99 USD
Location: New Providence, New Jersey
End Time: 2025-01-18T21:38:59.000Z
Shipping Cost: 7.95 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Material: Heliogravure, Photogravure
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Subject: Religious
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Type: Print
