1800s HENRI CAIN Antique Print “Traveling Street Musicians” Framed SIGNED COA$309.00
1800s HENRI CAIN Antique Print “Traveling Street Musicians” Framed SIGNED COA
$309.00
Artist: Henri Cain (French, 1857-1937)
Title: Strolling Musicians
Medium: Antique print after the original.
Year: c. 1890
Signature: Signed in plate, lower right.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image size 7 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 20 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
This is not a modern print. This work is more than 120 years old. The s
Henri Cain was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist. He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque. Cain was born in Paris, the son of the sculptor Auguste Cain and brother of the painter Georges Cain. He studied painting in the studios of Jean-Paul Laurens and Édouard Detaille. He was married to the soprano Julia Guiraudon. Close to Edouard de La Gandara, Jean Dara when he worked with Sarah Bernhardt, Henri Cain was an admirer of several major contemporary painters and sculptors such as Antonio de La Gandara and Jean Carriès.
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