Of the world’s finest artists from. Our collection to yours. Thank you for visiting.. Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin (French, 1850 – 1916). Antique heliogravure on heavy wove after the original painting by a master engraver. Signed in the plate lower right. Image Size 7 1/4 x 10 inches. Approximately 16 x 19 inches. This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. This is not a modern print. This work is more than 120 years old. It is rare and hard to find. Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin was a French painter, close to the symbolist movement. Raphaël Collin initially studied at the School of Saint Louis in Paris. He later moved to Verdun and had Jules Bastien-Lepage as his classmate, with whom he became a close friend. Back in Paris, he became a pupil of William Bouguereau. He later changed master, preferring Alexandre Cabanel’s atelier, where he found his friend Lepage, Fernand Cormon, Aimé Morot and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. In 1873 he exhibited for the first time at the Salon, where, in the following years, he received numerous prizes and awards. From 1872 to 1889 he collaborated with Théodore Deck on the realization ofdecorative majolica. Among his works of decorative painting stand the ceilings of the small “foyer” of the Teatro dell’Odéon and that of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique. However, Collin was a painter of genre, portraits and nudes, decorative compositions and simple illustrations. The symbolist movement did not affect it any more than that much, and in any case only formally: beyond the subjects and the typical ways of this pictorial current always transpires from his works a strong personal characterization, alien from the languor of the symbolists. Collin died in Brionne at age 66. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described. Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described.