Giotto and Cimabue, from "L'Artiste"
Not on view
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.
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