Fernand Cormon, 1897 - Bronze and iron, sketch for the amphitheater of paleontology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris - fine art print

Artwork specifications from the museum's website (© - by Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris - www.petitpalais.paris.fr)

In the foreground, a man and a woman pour molten metal into a mold to shape it. They wear clothing woven and man is shod in a pair of clogs. A man behind right looks on. He holds a long-handled ladle working in his hands. Behind them, men are activated to feed two furnaces from which issue smoke for melting metal. At the far left is a domesticated dog and a tent camp.

April 18, 1893, the State entrusts Cormon the realization of a decorative ensemble of ten panels wall and a ceiling for the amphitheater of Paleontology and the Museum of Anthropology of Natural History in Paris. Fruit of lengthy documentation and conducting preliminary sketches, the auditorium's decor is inaugurated in 1898 and is still in place today. It presents a series of scenes recreating what one could imagine the early days of humanity in view of new scientific knowledge.

Genre scene, Art Metal, Metal, Furnace, Camp, Domestication

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Bronze and iron, sketch for the amphitheater of paleontology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris is an artpiece painted by Fernand Cormon in the year 1897. The version of the artpiece was painted with the size: Height: 76 cm, Width: 40 cm. Oil painting was used by the painter as the medium of the work of art. The original artwork has the following inscription: Date and signature - Signed and dated lower right "F. Cormon 97". What is more, this artwork is included in the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris's art collection in Paris, France. We are glad to reference that this public domain work of art is being provided with courtesy of Petit Palais Paris.Creditline of the artwork: . Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 9 : 16, which means that the length is 45% shorter than the width.

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