Giotto and Cimabue, from "L'Artiste"

Giovanni Cimabue|Armand Vastine|Alphonse Hennet|Giotto di Bondone

July 7, 1844 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

This print represents an extremely popular subject exhibited at the French Salon in the 1840s. The critic Arsène Houssaye, editor-in-chief of "L'Artiste," wrote that each year, one could anticipate a half-dozen pictures of Giotto and Cimabue. The narrative of these works derived from Giorgio Vasari's sixteenth-century account of the meeting of these two masters of the late middle ages. At the 1844 Salon, Houssaye cited four examples, noting that Hennet's, reproduced in this lithograph, was the most distinguished. Hennet was a student of Ingres, who showed regularly at the Salon from 1837–61. Vastine, the lithographer, was a student of Paul Delaroche and also a frequent Salon exhibitor.

Artist

Giovanni Cimabue|Armand Vastine|Alphonse Hennet|Giotto di Bondone

Date

July 7, 1844

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019