Original 19th-century engraving, hand-colored: Marguerite, a young woman with a long braid and flowers gathered in her skirt, before a Gothic image of the Virgin and Child. Engraved by Charles Alphonse Deblois after the painting by Jean Baptiste Bertrand and published in London by Virtue.
Original 19th-century engraving, hand-colored: Marguerite, a young woman with a long braid and flowers gathered in her skirt, before a Gothic image of the Virgin and Child. Engraved by Charles Alphonse Deblois after the painting by Jean Baptiste Bertrand and published in London by Virtue.
The engraving forms a pair with the Ophelia by the same painter and engraver.
Medium: Engraving and etching, hand-colored.
Artist / after: The painting by Jean Baptiste Bertrand (1823-1887).
Engraver: Charles Alphonse Deblois (1822 - c. 1883).
Date: 1878.
Source: Published in London by J.S. Virtue.
Dimensions: Image 10.6 x 7.0 in (27 x 17.7 cm).
Condition: The sheet trimmed along the left margin, as can be seen in the photograph; otherwise good condition and fresh color.