Christ The Soldier Painting After Jean Joseph Weerts
Artist: Jean Joseph Weerts
Antique oil on canvas after the original work by Jean Joseph Weerts entitled "Pour l' humanité, pour la patrie" in the Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris.
The painting presented here is in good overall condition. The canvas is slightly relaxed.
Size 65x40cm.
The painting presented here is in good overall condition. The canvas is slightly relaxed.
Size 65x40cm.
Quality work from the early 20th century.
Like the original painting, the work presented echoes the figure of the Wounded Cuirassier of 1814 painted by Géricault in an equivalent format. After France's defeat at the hands of the Prussians in 1870, and in the midst of the Dreyfus affair, Weerts' work appealed to young Sorbonne students to do their patriotic duty. The death of the cuirassier thrown to the ground is answered by the sacrifice of Christ nailed to the cross, in a rhetoric that would be widely taken up in works commemorating the First World War.
180 €
Period: 19th century
Style: Louis Philippe, Charles 10th
Condition: Good condition
Material: Oil painting
Reference (ID): 1765209
Availability: In stock
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