Constant, Benjamin (1845-1902). (Christ raising Lazarus from the dead). Oil...
Constant, Benjamin (1845-1902). (Christ raising Lazarus from the dead). Oil on canvas, 800x60 cm., signed in lower right corner, framed.
= The artist was asked, together with 26 other renowned European artists, to create the design of one of the 100 plates for one of the most ambitious publications of the Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, the Juliana-bible of 1900, i.a. with designs by Walter Crane, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Edward Burne-Jones, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, James Tissot, Arthur Kampf, Max Liebermann, Sascha Schneider and Fritz von Uhde, Jozef Israëls, Ilja Repin, José Villegas Cordero and Juliaan De Vriendt. On this project and publication, cf. Anne van BUUL, Een eerbiedwaardig reuzenwerk De Geïllustreerde Bijbel (1900) (De Moderne Tijd, 2017, no.2, p.160-179). The engraving used in the Juliana bible was made after this painting.
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Constant, Benjamin (1845-1902). (Christ raising Lazarus from the dead). Oil on canvas, 800x60 cm., signed in lower right corner, framed.
= The artist was asked, together with 26 other renowned European artists, to create the design of one of the 100 plates for one of the most ambitious publications of the Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, the Juliana-bible of 1900, i.a. with designs by Walter Crane, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Edward Burne-Jones, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, James Tissot, Arthur Kampf, Max Liebermann, Sascha Schneider and Fritz von Uhde, Jozef Israëls, Ilja Repin, José Villegas Cordero and Juliaan De Vriendt. On this project and publication, cf. Anne van BUUL, Een eerbiedwaardig reuzenwerk De Geïllustreerde Bijbel (1900) (De Moderne Tijd, 2017, no.2, p.160-179). The engraving used in the Juliana bible was made after this painting.
