Print of the Day!! Friday, March 22, 2019; Zephirin Belliard (1798-1871); "Melle. De Sombreuil"; lithograph; 1824. $300.00.
The Print of the Day!! Friday, March 22, 2019. French printmaker Zephirin Belliard (1798-1871).
Another image in a series of prints - Portraits of Women - in honor of Women's History Month.
Melle. De Sombreuil is a lithograph, done in 1824. The image measures 10-1/8 x 8" (to the title). This impression is titled and signed in the stone, within the image and is annotated in the stone: “C.Lith. de Delpech”, also within the image. It was published and printed by Francois-Séraphin Delpech on an antique-white wove paper that measures 15-3/8 x 12-3/8".
This early lithograph by French printmaker Zephirin Belliard is available from the gallery for $300.00.
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This lithograph by Zephirin Belliard is of Mademoiselle de Sombreuil who was born Jeanne Jacques Marie Anne Françoise de Virot at the château de Leychoisier on the 14th February 1768. As the daughter of an aristocrat she stood with her father when he was imprisoned during the revolution. While in prison she was at his side on the 2nd September when a makeshift tribunal and mob arrived at the Abbaye as part of the infamous Prison Massacres. She is reported to have drunk a glass of blood, taken from one of the executed prisoners, in order to save her father’s life.
Unfortunately for the heroic Mademoiselle de Sombreuil, her father and younger brother, Stanislas (1768-1794) were again arrested a year later and she would share their imprisonment at Port-Libre and Sainte-Pélagie before the Marquis and Stanislas were guillotined on the 17th June 1794. in 1796 she was married the Comte de Villelum, but there were no children. She died in Avignon on the 15th of May 1823.
This impression is from the estate of author, museum director and collector Michael Wentworth (1938-2002) who wrote the catalogue raisonné on James Tissot. His stamp is at the lower right corner (not in Lugt).
Belliard was a printer as well as an artist and the young Honore Daumier was trained by him in lithography, the rest is history.
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