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Hippolyte Fournier, 1853 – 1926 SAINT CECILIA - ALLEGORY OF MUSIC Oil on canvas. 228 x 126 cm. Signed lower right. In wide light frame. As in Raphael's "Rapture of St. Cecilia" from ca. 1514 in the Pinacoteca Nationale in Bologna, Fournier elevates the music together with the saint to a subject surrounded by angels, which is presented to the viewer in enormous dimensions and symbolist tone, while a row of white lilies line the saint with her nimbus-lined head and the hand organ, whose pipes in their decreasing length also suggest the path leading into the depths. Exhibition: Salon des Artistes français, 1899, no. 804 (1401471) (13)
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Hippolyte Fournier, 1853 – 1926 SAINT CECILIA - ALLEGORY OF MUSIC Oil on canvas. 228 x 126 cm. Signed lower right. In wide light frame. As in Raphael's "Rapture of St. Cecilia" from ca. 1514 in the Pinacoteca Nationale in Bologna, Fournier elevates the music together with the saint to a subject surrounded by angels, which is presented to the viewer in enormous dimensions and symbolist tone, while a row of white lilies line the saint with her nimbus-lined head and the hand organ, whose pipes in their decreasing length also suggest the path leading into the depths. Exhibition: Salon des Artistes français, 1899, no. 804 (1401471) (13)
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