Stunning 1800s Joseph GERMAIN Antique Engraving “The Loyal Companion” FRAMED COA$324.00
Stunning 1800s Joseph GERMAIN Antique Engraving “The Loyal Companion” FRAMED COA
$324.00
Artist: Joseph Germain or Jozef Geefs (Belgian, 1808 -1885)
Title: The Faithful Messenger
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original statue by master engraver Edwin Roffe (English, 1825 – 1891).
Year: 1852
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 2 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 11 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A classical woman sitting, semi-nude, with a bird perched on her right shoulder, drinking from a cup which she holds in her right hand, jug in the other hand.
Joseph Germain or Jozef Geefs was a Belgian sculptor. His brothers Guillaume Geefs and Jean Geefs were also sculptors. Joseph Geefs was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, going on to Paris’s École des beaux-arts and winning the Prix de Rome in 1836. In 1841, he became a lecturer in sculpture and anatomy at the Academy in Antwerp rising to be its director in 1876. He was made an officer of the Order of Leopold in 1859. Geefs married a daughter of the architect Lodewijk Roelandt and probably produced the portrait medallion on his gravestone. Geefs died in Brussels, aged 76, and was buried in Berchem.
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