Le Feu du Ciel (Fire from Heaven)
Louis Candide Boulanger, French, 1807 - 1867
1831; published 1832
Lithograph on laid china paper
Image: 22 7/8 × 31 in. (58.1 × 78.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.972.53
Publisher
Lemercier et Cie., Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled and dated, in stone, lower right: LB 1831; inscribed, lower left: Louis Boulandger inv. et del.; lower right: Printed by Meifred, Lemercier et Cie.
Course History
REL 81, Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar: Orientalism and the Origins of Religion, Susannah Heschel, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
19th Century French Prints, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1973.
Art and/as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.
Baroque Prints from College Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-February 16, 1975.
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
Recent Acquisitions, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-July, 1972.
Selections from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 21, 1978-February 18, 1979.
Published References
Muse´e des beaux-arts de Dijon. 1970. Louis Boulanger: peintre-graveur de l'e´poque romantique, 1806-1867. p. 77.
Provenance
Grooper Art Gallery; sold to present collection, 1972.
Catalogue Raisonne
H. Beraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe Siecle, vol. 2, no. 5.
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