Pair Of Jean-Baptiste Adolph Lafosse Colored French Lithographs Civil War Era

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Rare Antique Pair of Jean-Baptiste Adolph Lafosse Colored French Lithographs Civil War Era. These first-rate, signed Civil War-era chromolithograph portraits of 2 little French girls, is by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse (French, Paris, 1814-1879). The lithographs are signed "Lafosse". The original framing has the 1800’s glass in them. Incredible.
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Dimensions: #1 28 1/2”H x 22 1/2”W, #2 26 3/8”H x 22 3/8”W.
Condition: Stunningly Well Preserved condition for their age. Please Examine Photos Carefully for condition.
Lafosse is known for his oil on canvas portraits, including one of Napoleon III (1865) and his wife Empress Eugenie (1858), and for being the lithographer of images such as the one owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a 1857 hand-colored lithograph of a well-dressed exotic looking African-American musician entitled “Portrait of the Bone Player”.
Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse
Date of birth: 24 February 1810, Paris
Date of death: 31 January 1879, 18th arrondissement of Paris
Country of citizenship: France
Work location: Paris (1830, 1879)
Child of Georges Lafosse, born onSeptember 17, 1843 in Bougival and died on May 27, 1880 in Asnières , was a French designer, caricaturist , engraver and illustrator.
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