The Seine

Pierre Daura (Pedro Francisco Daura y Garcia)

About 1921

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Pieter de Jode, an engraver, stands in front of a table with engraving tools sitting upon it. He holds his left arm across his body. In his left hand is a rolled piece of cloth or paper. He looks slightly to the proper left. This image is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.
In the setting of a ruined building with a desert landscape in the distance, the Virgin mary kneels before the Christ Child.
Portfolio of two page folios made of one sheet folded over in center. Identified on the recto of each first page of the folio. Image on the recto of the second page. Bust portrait of a male figure wearing a coat with a large, brown fur collar and a black fur hat. His body faces front as he turns his head slightly to the right. This series is a product of Jacovleff's involvement in the Expédition Citroën Centre-Asie.
Two figures gather fruit along a pathway. A tree with fan-like blue leaves and pink fruit runs alongside the pathway.