Pastoral Life of Saint Geneviève (right panel)
c. 1888
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 37.8 cm (9 1/2 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 55 cm (17 9/16 × 21 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11352
Art Historical Context
Created around 1888 by French artist Georges-William Thornley, *Pastoral Life of Saint Geneviève (right panel)* captures a serene moment from the legendary story of Paris’s patron saint. This lithograph on paper, measuring roughly 24 by 38 centimeters for the image, forms part of a larger composition that likely celebrated Geneviève’s humble rural existence before her rise to spiritual prominence. Lithography, a relatively new printmaking process in the late nineteenth century, allowed artists to achieve soft tonal gradations and delicate line work that closely resembled drawings. Thornley’s...