Jean-Bap. Adolphe Lafosse, Louis Ammy Blanc, Lemercier, Benard et Cie., Henri Jeannin
Le Retour de l’Eglise
1835-1841
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Jean-Bap. Adolphe Lafosse, Louis Ammy Blanc, Lemercier, Benard et Cie., Henri Jeannin
Le Retour de l’Eglise
1835-1841
Physical Qualities
Lithograph, Sheet: 269 × 210 mm. (10 9/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Image: 195 × 151 mm. (7 11/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.17007
After Louis Ammy Blanc's 1834 painting "The Churchgoer" now in the collection of the Landesmuseum, Hanover (attribition to "Witich" in inscription is not accurate, or perhaps refers to an unknown, intermediary work).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
On reproductive prints after Louis Ammy Blanc's "The Churchgoer," see Cordula Grewe, The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-Garde and the Art of the Concept (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015; esp. Chapter 15, Portraiture as History).
Inscribed: above image, center "Musée de l'Amateur"; above image, upper right "No. 70"; below image, lower left "Peint par Witich"; below image, lower center "Imp de Lemercier, Benard et Cie / LE RETOUR DE L'ÉGLISE."; below image, lower right "Lith. par Lafosse"
Markings: CM: Henri Jeannin (Lugt 1397c)