Antique steel engraving with the oval portrait of the sculptor Auguste Clesinger, full-bearded and in a cloak. Engraved by Adrien Nargeot from a photograph by Pierre Petit, printed by Sarazin and published by Marchant for the Alliance des Arts in Paris.
Antique steel engraving with the oval portrait of the sculptor Auguste Clesinger, full-bearded and in a cloak. Engraved by Adrien Nargeot from a photograph by Pierre Petit, printed by Sarazin and published by Marchant for the Alliance des Arts in Paris.
Auguste Clesinger (1814-1883) was one of the most argued-over sculptors of the Second Empire, author of the famous Woman Bitten by a Snake and son-in-law of George Sand.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: From a photograph by Pierre Petit
Engraver: Adrien Nargeot
Date: 1870, according to the old record
Source: Marchant, publisher, Alliance des Arts, Paris
Dimensions: 9.1 x 11.8 in (23 x 30 cm)
Condition: Good; light toning of the paper and a few faint marks in the margins.