ALLIER (Achille). The life and miracles of Saint Porcianus. - Lot 294

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ALLIER (Achille). The life and miracles of Saint Porcianus. - Lot 294
ALLIER (Achille). The life and miracles of Saint Porcianus. According to Gregorius Florentius bishop of Tours. Translated and put in pictures by Achille Allier bourbonnais. Moulins, P. A. Desrosiers et fils, [1855]. Lithograph in colors, framed, total dimensions XXX cm, image size : 68 x 87.8 cm. 78 X 98 cm (wetness and small alterations). Achille Allier is the author of the pen-and-ink drawing completed in early 1836, less than two months before the artist's death. the artist's death. It was transcribed on stone by Auguste Mathieu for the architectures and Bayot for the figures. The printing was carried out by the Moulin printer Pierre André Desrosiers and constitutes a technical feat, both by the size of the image (one of the largest lithographs of the time) and by the multiplication of colors, all lithographed: black, ochre, blue-grey, blue, vermilion red, carmine red, brown and gold (cf Léon COTE, Achille Allier, historian, imagier bourbonnais... 1942, pp. 185 and following).
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