2-982-496 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"The Separation of the Apostles" - from a picture by Charles Gleyre, 1858. 'The subject of this picture is the figurative separation of the Apostles at the foot of the Cross, when they went forth into all lands preaching the gospel. M. Gleyre, the artist, has shown considerable skill and taste in the composition, the result being a highly-effective and striking group, well calculated to enforce the sentiment intended, namely, the importance of the apostolic mission as based upon, and springing from, the cross. For the rest, as in the attitudes, the disposition of the draperies, and the studied simplicity of the landscape, the treatment is peculiarly French, and the picture may be taken as a fair average specimen of the modern French scriptural school. Our Engraving is copied, by permission, from a fine print, after the picture, by Gautin, published by Messrs. Gambard and Co.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.