1186 - Horst Janssen, “Madame Danton”, woman's portrait with child and handwritten letter text, dated 1977

Horst Janssen, “Madame Danton”, woman's portrait with child and handwritten letter text, dated 1977 (1929 Hamburg – 1995 Hamburg), offset/paper, monogrammed in pencil lower right, inscribed at the top “Zur ‚Kopie‘ bei Felix Jud + Co”, dated “3.4.77” and titled “Madame DANTON”, dated in the image “18 12 76”, half-length figure of Madame Danton in a green dress with bonnet and ruffled collar, in front of her a child with dark curly hair, coloured areas in green, ochre and brown, below and along the right edge reproduced handwritten letter text, good condition, image 32.5x16 cm (HxW), behind glass, framed, overall 45.5x30.5 cm (HxW) Horst Janssen (1929 to 1995) studied from 1946 at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg under Alfred Mahlau and worked as a draughtsman and printmaker; besides drawings, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs he created posters and illustrations. In 1968 he received the Grand Prize for Graphic Art at the Venice Biennale; since 2000 the Horst-Janssen-Museum in Oldenburg has been dedicated to him. In his work he repeatedly engaged with earlier artists such as Rembrandt, Goya, Munch and Ensor; under the title “Die Kopie” posters and invitations appeared in 1976 and 1977. Felix Jud (1899 to 1985) ran a bookshop in Hamburg, latterly on Neuer Wall. Depicted is Madame Danton, Antoinette Gabrielle Charpentier (circa 1762 to 1793), who in 1787 married the French revolutionary politician Georges Jacques Danton and was portrayed by Jacques-Louis David.