Charles Dana Gibson - Cupid's Repose

Cupid's Repose

Title:

Cupid's Repose

Artist:

Gibson, Charles Dana (Roxbury, Ma., 1867 - New York, 1944 )

Date:

1887

Medium:

Original Lithograph

Charles Dana Gibson: Arguably the most successful and well known artist of the Belle Epoch era (1890-1900), the lithographs and illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson commanded a world wide following. Gibson received his training from the Art Students League of New York and under the architect, George Post. He established himself as America's foremost illustrator by the age of twenty and went on to write and illustrate such well known books as, Education of Mr. Pipp, Sketches in London, The Social Ladder, A Widow and The Americans. Charles Gibson's gift for gentle satire, particularly among the social elite, was tremendously influential. Not the least, his representations of liberated beautiful young women created the dominant fashion of the time. The term, 'Gibson Girl' is still with us to this day.

Charles Dana Gibson was a full member of the prestigious National Academy of Design, as well as the Society of Illustrators, the American Federation of Artists, the Artists Guild of Authors and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In the twentieth century he illustrated for many national magazines and became the general editor for Life. The Library of Congress, Washington, DC., owns the most comprehensive collection of Gibson's original drawings and lithographs.

Cupid's Repose is a fine, early example of Charles Gibson's art. An elderly couple slumbers after a social dinner. They are observed by Cupid who sits across the table. He knows that in this case his arrow would miss its mark.

Edition:

Charles Gibson is known to have signed in hand only a few proof impressions of each of his published lithographs. The regular editions were signed only in the stone.

Size:

9 1/4 X 16 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)

Matted with 100% Archival Materials

Condition:

Printed upon heavy nineteenth century wove paper and backed upon board. Signed by Gibson in the image and signed and dated in pencil along the lower margin. It is a fine impression and in excellent condition throughout. Cupid's Repose represents a prime, original example of the famous art of Charles Dana Gibson.

Price:

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