Print urania XIXth Napoleon 3

Antique print depicting the greek muse "uranie en allégorie. Urania, muse of astrology from greek mythology, is represented here wearing a dress, crowned with stars, and supporting with both hands a starry globe that she seems to measure. This old engraving is framed in a beautiful old frame with moving shapes and beaded friezes in wood and gilded stucco. Each inner angel of the frame features pretty stylized flowers that make it a unique piece. The frame features an old label "genre photographer, marck, painter and photographer, 106 rue neuve des mathurins" in paris. The musée d'orsay in paris indicates that it carried out its activities in the 1860s, first at 106 rue neuve des mathurins, then at 66 rue de rome. Marck is listed as a genre photographer in paris, from 1863 to 1874, and as a painter, at the universal exhibition of 1867. In addition to business card portraits, he signed photographs retouched in oil and transformed into paintings. Twenty-six are collected in the album of the duke of morny kept at the metropolitan museum. Old frame of the nineteenth. Engraving probably from the same period. Frame dimensions: Height of 19.7 cm. Width of 16 cm. Depth of 4.4 cm. Dimensions of the engraving: Height of 10 cm. Width of 6 cm. Weight of 373 grams. Urania, muse of astrology, comes from greek mythology whose memory has faded over the centuries. In greek times, urania is the muse of astrology and astronomy, the 2 disciplines considered inseparable by the greeks, as well as geometry. The "muse" is an egérie, a source of inspiration, in the context of creative activities. In antiquity, the anxiety of the blank page, the wish for ideas to come to mind, required the invocation of a muse to descend from the olympian world, the residence of the greek gods. For example, .

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