Sujet

Holy Water Stoup with Figures of Faith, Hope and Charity, 1864. Creator: Jean Marie Reignier.

Légende

Holy Water Stoup with Figures of Faith, Hope and Charity, 1864. Reignier trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France, and became a professor there, specializing in flower painting. Lyon was an important center for the silk industry, and because naturalistic floral motifs were popular designs for textiles in the mid-19th-century, flower painting was both encouraged and rewarded financially. Large textile firms would even keep their own greenhouses with flowers and plants for their designers to work from. Reignier’s symmetrical and tightly executed watercolor could have been easily adapted to be a design for a textile or wallpaper. This work was commissioned by William T. Walters in 1864 to be used as the frontispiece to one of his drawings albums containing works on paper with the theme of religious devotion.

Date

1864

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B21_478

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,7Mo (1,7Mo) / 31,4cm x 42,0cm / 3714 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature Europe religious flower flowers plant plants arts country French France religion hope art rose roses faith continent museum European color decoration Christianity location century statuette crucifix charity figurine basin holy water concept decorated B&W Colour Realism allegory 19th century black & white black and white B W allegorical white and black Realist allegorical figure nineteenth century artistic movement artistic school naturalism portrait landscape Walters Art Museum art movement Heritage Art 19th-century stoup Jean Marie Reignier Reignier Jean Marie Reignier Jean-Marie Reignier watercolour and opaque watercolour over traces of graphite on cream very thick very smooth wove paper