Strong Mihaly MUNKACSY 1800s Religious Etching The Bible Study SIGNED FRAMED COA$344.00
Strong Mihaly MUNKACSY 1800s Religious Etching The Bible Study SIGNED FRAMED COA
$344.00
Artist: Mihaly Munkacsy (Hungarian, 1844-1900)
Title: Milton dictating “Paradise Lost” to his Daughters
Medium: Hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper after the original by master etcher Gustave Greux (1838-1919)
Year: 1880
Signature: Signed in the plate lower left
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 19 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse.
Mihaly Munkacsy is one of the most significant painters of the 19th century. Even today he is regarded as the greatest Hungarian painter by admirers, art historians and collectors of his paintings. Some of his paintings became world sensations as soon as he finished them; he was celebrated by art connoisseurs and the art-loving public of Europe, America and Hungary.
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