Martyrs
Jean Danguy
1895
Medium
lithograph in black on japan paper
Dimensions
sheet: 38.2 x 26.6 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, gift in memory of Virginia H. Jackson
Accession Number
1996.151.99
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jean Danguy · 1863–1926
**Jean Célestin Danguy: Symbolist Painter and Printmaker** Born on November 23, 1863, in Gagny, France, at his maternal grandmother Rose Thorel's home—where she directed the local post office—Jean Célestin Danguy grew up in an artistic family. His father, Célestin Danguy, was a history painter renowned for reproducing Franz Xaver Winterhalter's portrait of Napoleon III for public buildings, inclu...