Alfred Holst Tourrier 1800s Engraving “The Alchemy Experiment” Signed Framed COA$309.00
Alfred Holst Tourrier 1800s Engraving “The Alchemy Experiment” Signed Framed COA
$309.00
Artist: Alfred Holst Tourrier (British, 1836-1892)
Title: Gold
Medium: Antique Steel Engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver William Greatbach (1802-ca. 1885).
Year: 1875
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Interior with an alchemy experiment, an old bearded man standing in the left middle distance, presenting the gold in his hand, a noble couple next to him bending down for a close look, the third man sitting in the right foreground on a stool in profile, another couple standing in the right background in front of a cabinet between the kiln and table, two apparatuses on the floor in the left foreground.
Alfred Holst Tourrier was a British painter who was born in 1836. He was the son of a successful artist and drawing instructor named Jean Furcy Tourrier. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Henry II of France and Diana of Poitiers witnessing the execution of a Protestant’ sold at Christie’s South Kensington ‘Victorian & British Impressionist Art’ in 2014 for $14,535. The artist died in 1892.
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