Jean Louis Hamon Engraving “Aurora Drinking Orient Pearls” Signed Framed COA$404.00
Jean Louis Hamon Engraving “Aurora Drinking Orient Pearls” Signed Framed COA
$404.00
Artist: Jean Louis Hamon (French, 1821 – 1874)
Title: Aurora
Medium: Antique steel engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver J. Levasseur (French).
Year: 1878
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 20 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
“The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of the dews,” which glisten like pearls on her flowing hair, on the leaves of the stately hollyhock, and on those of the gracefully twining convolvulus. A flower cup of the last plant, assumed to be filled with the “orient pearls,” as Milton designates the dewdrops, Aurora holds gracefully and lightly to her lips. A pretty and poetic sentiment.
Jean-Louis Hamon was a painter of idyllic and atmospheric genre views, quite often of mothers and children, as well as of allegorical and classical scenes. One of the originators of the Neo-grec approach to painting that was popularized in the years around 1850, Hamon was one of the few painters who maintained the movement’s integration of genre subjects and classicizing style throughout his career.
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