184. Two chromolithographs "Elena și Alexandru Ioan Cuza" ("Elena and Alexandru Ioan Cuza"), by Alexandru Resmeriţă, 1909, executed for the 50 years' anniversary of the Union of the Principalities

The monarch is depicted while standing, from a left side semi-profile position, looking ahead; he wears a black uniform; the right hand with a clenched fist on a book placed on a table; next to the book, there is the feathered bicorne; background containing panels decorated with wands, stuccos and a curtain on the right side. The portrait's frame has a locket on each corner, each of them bearing an inscription: upper left: V. Alecsandri; upper right: M. Cogălniceanu; lower left: Bishop Melchisedek; lower right: Constantin Negri. Upper middle part, a white dove in the blue sky. The lithograph reproduces one of the monarch's photos, taken by Carol Popp de Szathmari, which served him as a model for the official portrait, lithographed in 1851. Lithographed inscriptions under the frame, left side: All rights reserved T. Severin 1909; right side: Al. Resmeriţă teacher-painter; middle: As Cuza was being elected in Iaşi, the crowd expecting the result kept/ in mind that a dove kept flying around and sat on the frontispiece of the Administrative Palace. (v. Istoria). Lithographed inscription, placed in a small frame under the portrait: ALECSANDRU IOAN CUZA / 1859-1866 / By his election as a Prince on the 5th and 24to of January 1859, the Union was made [...].. The Lady is depicted while standing, from a right side semi-profile, looking ahead; the left hand on a closed book placed on a table with sculpted legs; on the left side of the background, one can see a detail from the oval back of a throne chair, as well as a curtain. The portrait's frame has an oval locket on each of the four corners, two of them bearing the inscription: Azilul Elena Doamna (Lady Elena Asylum); and the other two: Castelul din Ruginoasa (Ruginoasa Castle). Upper middle part, a white dove flying in the blue sky. The chromolithograph had as a model the lithograph, or one of the photos taken by Carol Popp de Szathmari for the Lady's 1851 official portrait. Inscriptions lithographed under the frame, left side: Turnu-Severin 1909.; right side: Al. Resmeriţă, teacher-painter; in a small frame under the portrait, middle part: LADY ELENA CUZA / 1859-1909 /She was a witness of the great deeds accomplished during Her husband's reign [...].

Dimenzije

width 48 cm, height 73 cm

Opis

chromolithography on paper

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