JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951). The Rescue of Gismonda, interior story illustration, 1906. Oil on ca...

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JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951)
The Rescue of Gismonda, interior story illustration, 1906
Oil on canvas
29 x 20 in.
Signed lower left

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

This outstanding book illustration is a plate from Ridolfo, The Coming of the Dawn: A Tale of the Renaissance, by Egerton R. Williams, Jr., 1906. The printed version was also reproduced on page 214 of J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, by Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, Abrams, 2008.

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