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Cain Flying before the Curses of Jehovah, Fernand Cormon, 1880

Academician / French / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of the Biblical masterpiece, “Cain Flying before the Curses of Jehovah” of 1880 by Fernand Cormon.  It is an imaginative depiction of the passage in Genesis which states that Cain will flee to the land of Nod in the fourth chapter of Genesis.  Cormon was a Parisian who studied under Cabanel and produced this work when he was thirty-five years old.  He became one of the leading French historical painters and was inducted into the Legion of Honor in this year of this production  Afterwards he managed the Atelier Cormon where studied Toulouse-Latrec and Van Gogh.  He died in a traffic accident at the age of seventy-nine.  This masterpiece is in the Musee d’Orsay.

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