Tout le monde ici connaît cette image.
Mais voilà ! Elle a aussi un auteur et toute une méthodologie.
Description: This steel engraving depicting Marie Antoinette was an original painting by Alonzo Chappel, who worked in tandem with Johnson Publishing. This was one of the most notable collaborations between publishers and artists in the pictorial history market. Chappel was famous during his career for illustrating highly iconographic visual representations of famous figures, and they all emphasized the same heroic values of strength, leadership and courage. Johnson publishing was immediately impressed with his illustrations, and through a collaboration, published
The History of the United States, which was a pictorial exploration of American history until
1872.
Johnson Publishing employed the steel engraving process, primarily as a way to reduce the details of Chappel's large scale paintings to a size suitable for standardized books. Therefore, he was able to reproduce images that had previously been permanently tied to a large canvas. The ability of steel engraving to allow for dramatic reductions of scale without loss of detail encouraged the mass circulation of
The History of the United States.
https://www.theantiquarium.com/
Pour la petite histoire, on a aussi une gravure de Chappel dans la topic sur Bondinet au pays du sommeil.
https://maria-antonia.forumactif.com/t11p525-le-marquis-gilbert-de-la-fayette-alias-monsieur-blondinet
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