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Il Jura, Par Un Affreux Serment, Qu'il Pardonnait a Son Esclave, Non Pas Pour L'amour De Dieu, Mais Pour L'amour D'elle

William Harvey (1796-1866)

Price
£2,250
Medium
Watercolour
Dimensions
6 x 4 ¼ inches
Provenance
George Low, the Great-Great-Great Grandson of Sampson Low
Illustrated
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De St Pierre, Paul et Virginie, Londres: Sampson Low/ Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel Fils & Richter [Ventouillac's Classiques Francais, vol 8], 1824, Frontispiece (engraved by E I Roberts)
Exhibited
'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2014', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2014-January 2015, no 21

'He swore, by a dreadful oath, that he forgave his slave, not for the love of God, but for the love of her.'

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) was a French writer and one of the first to celebrate Cultural Primitivism, a central idea of the Romantic Movement. Paul et Virginie, the novel for which he is best known, centres on two island children whose love for each other thrives in an unspoiled natural setting but ends tragically when civilisation interferes.

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