
Georges Lavalley (1868-1902) Engraving titled "Alma Mater" after V Demont Breton
Located in Argenteuil, IDF
Beautiful etching on wove paper with a watermark, BFK Rives, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1900. Title: "ALMA MATER" engraved by Georges-Henri Lavalley (1868-1902), winner of the 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1890 in intaglio, and dated 1899, after the painting by Madame Virginie DEMONT-BRETON (1859-1935). The etching and plate are in perfect condition, with only a few minor cuts along the lower, fringed edge of the sheet. Dimensions: "ALMA MATER" engraving: Sheet: 458 x 330 mm - Engraving: 243 x 170 mm - Engraving plate: 290 x 210 cm Engraved signature H.G. Lavalley below the engraving Engraved signature Virginie Demont Breton in the engraving, lower left & Blank stamp signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts below the engraving, lower left. Virginie Demont Breton, born in 1859, was the daughter of Jules Breton (1827-1906) and the niece of Émile Breton, both renowned painters. Her maternal grandfather was the Flemish painter and medievalist Félix de Vigne. She married the landscape painter Adrien Demont in 1880. In 1883, she received a gold medal at the Amsterdam World's Fair, and later at the World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900. The Société Française des Amis des Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous distinguished subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...
Antique Early 1900s French Romantic Prints
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