La Place Saint Georges, Paris Antique Art Print ~ Edmond Grandjean

Antique Goupil & Cie. photogravure art print from the picture by Edmond Grandjean.

Printed on mid-weight ivory colored stock. Reverse side is blank.

Title: La Place Saint Georges, Paris

Publication: The Masterpieces of French Art

Publication Year: 1883

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 14 x 11

Approximate Image Size (in inches): 10¼ x 7½

Condition: Image area is in very nice, clean condition. Some light foxing in margin area. Atticpaper.com watermark does not appear on actual print.

Let the visitor to Paris walk from the Opera House across the Boulevard des Italiens and he will reach the scene of our picture. So consummate is the art that it is difficult to realize that we are gazing upon a scene painted on canvas. One could more readily believe it to be a view from nature obtained by instantaneous photography, but for the fact that it is so finished and well-studied a picture. That would be a rare photograph, indeed, that should yield a result like this, -- such admirable distribution of parts, comprehensive variety of details, and naturalness of movement. There is not a detail of the picture that does not reward the most careful scrutiny. All is wrought with intelligent observation and conscientious care, and every part is in its just relation to the whole. The blouse-clad laborer and his horse, and the trotting cab-horse and its driver, are masterly. And scarcely less so are the policeman by the dripping fountain, the omnibus advancing slowly up grade, the various groups of pedestrians, the cream-colored houses, the carefully-wrought trees, and the fine perspective, -- all of which conspire to form a true panorama. To those familiar with the spot and its characteristic appearance during the busy hours, the scene is absolutely real.