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May 14 2011
Ossian on the Bank of the Lora
French / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Ossian on the Bank of the Lora invoking the Gods to the Strains of a Harp” by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard of 1801. This French baron was thirty-one when he created this masterpiece. He was born in Rome of a French baron and an Italian lady. He studied under David and became involved in the French Revolution. At the same time he rose in the estimation of art connoisseurs and he became known as one of the foremost portraitists by 1799. He was aghast at the rise of Romanticism after 1815 and died on January 11, 1837. This painting is based on the Poem of Ossian which was an early nineteenth century forgery which was largely believed by an entire generation including Jefferson, Napoleon and Goethe. The painting is 180.5 cm wide and 198.5 cm high. The masterpiece is currently in the Kuntstalle, Hamburg, Germany.
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Nov 17 2010
The Dream of Ossian by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1813
Academician / French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Jean Ingres’ “The Dream of Ossian” of 1813. Ingres was born in Montauban in 1780 and at the age of sixteen he went to Paris to study under David. He won the Grand Prix in 1801. He went to Rome in 1807 having secured a following in the art world. He continued to mature and gather a greater gathering until his death in 1867. The Dream of Ossian reflects the contemporary obsession with the literary bogus Homer of the North, yet the images are striking The original painting is in the Musee Ingres, Montauban, France.
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