The Jester Playing a Lute guitar - 1895 Music History Photogravure

This is a very oversized antique 1895 music-history photogravure print from The Music of the Modern World Illustrated in the Lives and Works of the Greatest Modern Musicians
by Fanny Morris Smith and Anton Seidl
Published in 1895 by D. Appleton and Co., New York

This is an original 1895 black and white photogravure of a painting by Franz Hals. One of the most brilliant portrait painters whose fame has comedown to us, Franz Hals, was born in 1584 at Antwerp. He studied in Haarlem, where the remainder of his life was passed, and where he died in 1666. While there are deep shadows on the record ofhis life, lie stands pre-eminent among the Dutch painters, and his works are to be found in all the leading museums. A certainty of knowledge and a sureness and freedom of brush work, with strength of conception and powerful individuality, are his striking characteristics. While be does not always appear at his best in the portraits he left behind, he is always interesting both in method and color.

Size: Approximately 15" X 11" 

Blank on Reverse

Condition: Excellent - Very Good - Good+++ - Fair - Poor (but of historical interest)

Occasional tiny printer's ink specks;  Light age toning (mostly edges); and minor handling wear; A very rarely offered print

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This is an Original Print- Not a Reproduction

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