Les Forges - Steel Engraving for Milton's Paradise Lost - 1855
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Original steel engraving titled Les forges: the fallen angels, naked and muscular, forge weapons in a vaulted cavern lit by the glow of the anvil. Engraved by Audibrand after Jean-Jacques Flatters and published by F. Chardon in Paris for John Milton's Le Paradis Perdu.
Original steel engraving titled Les forges: the fallen angels, naked and muscular, forge weapons in a vaulted cavern lit by the glow of the anvil. Engraved by Audibrand after Jean-Jacques Flatters and published by F. Chardon in Paris for John Milton's Le Paradis Perdu.
Flatters's series for Milton's poem is one of the most ambitious Romantic readings of the subject, drawn with a strongly sculptural feeling: Flatters (1786-1845) was above all a sculptor.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Jean-Jacques Flatters (1786-1845)
Engraver: Audibrand
Date: 1855
Source: Le Paradis Perdu by John Milton, ed. F. Chardon, Paris
Dimensions: 9.1 x 12.6 in (23 x 32 cm)
Condition: Good. Foxing in the margins, most visible at the upper right corner.
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Original steel engraving titled Les forges: the fallen angels, naked and muscular, forge weapons in a vaulted cavern lit by the glow of the anvil. Engraved by Audibrand after Jean-Jacques Flatters and published by F. Chardon in Paris for John Milton's Le Paradis Perdu.