His Visiting Card, inscribed by Gallait, unsigned, with a sketch on the verso of a silk umbrella distressed by moth
by GALLAIT, Louis
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About This Item
Undated. 2¼ x 3½ inches, black edges, remains of small hinges, in good condition. Louis Gallait (1810 1887), Belgian painter. Among his greater works may be named The Last Honors paid to Counts Egmont and Horn by the Corporations of the Town of Brussels, now at Tournai; The Death of Egmont, in the Berlin gallery; the Coronation of Baudouin, Emperor of Constantinople, painted for Versailles; The Temptation of St Anthony, in the palace at Brussels; The Siege of Antioch, Art and Liberty, Portrait of M. B. Dumortier and The Plague at Tournay, all in the Brussels gallery. A Gipsy Woman and her Children was painted in 1852. He also served as the director and president of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.
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- Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12099
- Title
- His Visiting Card, inscribed by Gallait, unsigned, with a sketch on the verso of a silk umbrella distressed by moth
- Author
- GALLAIT, Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Undated
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