Antique French Gothic Revival Chromolithograph "Moyen-Age" Medieval Ornament Study, C. 1875

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Beautiful antique French chromolithograph depicting medieval decorative ornament from the Gothic period. Titled Moyen-Age (Middle Ages), the plate presents an … Read more Beautiful antique French chromolithograph depicting medieval decorative ornament from the Gothic period. Titled Moyen-Age (Middle Ages), the plate presents an array of richly colored architectural and ornamental motifs including Gothic crosses, foliate scrolls, tracery, heraldic-inspired designs, and ecclesiastical decorative elements.
Published in Paris during the height of the Gothic Revival movement, this print served as a design reference for architects, interior decorators, church craftsmen, furniture makers, and decorative artists seeking inspiration from medieval European ornament.
The vivid chromolithographic colors remain striking, with soft greens, coral reds, golds, grays, and black accents arranged in a highly decorative composition. An excellent display piece for collectors of Gothic Revival design, architectural prints, ecclesiastical art, and nineteenth-century decorative arts.

This is a print from the book L'Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet. Information below from New York Public Library: Published in ten installments between 1869 and 1873, the first iteration of L'Ornement polychrome (Colour ornament) is a visual record in 100 plates of the decorative arts from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Although based on past masterpieces of design, the fantastic reproductions in L'Ornement polychrome, carried out by a number of skilled commercial artists of the day, can be considered works of art in their own right.

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