Two antique engravings

engraving VOIX DE LA MER :
Artist : Diane Coomans
This is most probably a work painted by Diane Coomans (1852-1909), a Belgian artist specializing in historical and neo-antique scenes.
She was the daughter of Belgian Romantic painter Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans.
Her style was part of the academic and neo-classical trend, very much in vogue at the end of the XIXᵉ century, with scenes inspired by Antiquity (columns, drapery, Mediterranean landscape).
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Lemercier & Cie was one of the most important Parisian lithography houses in the XIXᵉ century.
Active between the 1820s and the end of the century, they printed numerous works of art, posters and reproductions of paintings for the general public.
They were renowned for :
the quality of their lithographs
art prints distributed throughout Europe
collaborations with great academic painters
Publisher: E. Bulla
E. Bulla was a print publisher active in Paris in the XIXᵉ century.
Publishers like him had successful paintings reproduced in etching or lithography in order to sell them to an art-loving bourgeois public.
Subject of the work
The title "Voices from the Sea" evokes a symbolist / neo-antique scene:
Two women in antique dress
Greco-Roman architecture
Rough sea in the distance
Melancholic, allegorical atmosphere
This type of subject was very popular in the 1870s-1890s.
"Voice of the Sea Coomans
"Diane Coomans lithograph
represents a very fine example of neo-antique art from the XIXᵉ century, it corresponds perfectly to those large decorative lithographs circa 1860-1880.
This painting is attributed to the Belgian painter Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans.
The original painting is said to be by Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, a Belgian painter who was very active in the 19th century.
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