拍品 109
109
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, CALLED CASIMIR (1770-1829)

Ossian seated on a rock and playing the Harp; and blind Belisarius walking with his guide

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JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, CALLED CASIMIR (1770-1829)
Ossian seated on a rock and playing the Harp; and blind Belisarius walking with his guide
signed in pencil 'Casimir f' (lower right)
pen and grey ink
both rectangular, 5 1/8 x 3¾ in. (128 x 98 mm.), gilt and black églomisé glass and gilt-wood frames (2)

拍品專文

Both the topics of Ossian and Belisarius reappear in Casimir's oeuvre. In the Paris Salon of 1814, he exhibited Bélisaire désaltéré par son guide, and in 1812, he presented Le dernier hymne d'Ossian. The latter miniature is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Ossian, Paris, Grand Palais, 1974, no. 109, p. 110.
Casimir seems to be one of the first French artists to have shown interest in Macpherson's Poèmes d'Ossian, his earliest illustration of this subject being recorded in 1795.