Saint Wendelin - Patron Saint of Shepherds

Saint Wendelin (S. Wendelinus). CHUQUET (Alphonse Charles Henri, 1811-1899). Late 19th-century lithograph. Strasbourg, Lith. R. Schultz & Cie Sheet size: 33.3 x 24.8 cm. Image size: 23 x 18.5 cm. Copy inscribed to a cantonal physician of La Wantzenau by the artist's daughter, on September 27, 1906. Large polychrome neo-Gothic border decorated with scrollwork and floral motifs. Title in a lower cartouche: S. WENDELINUS. Signed in the stone A. Chuquet lower left. Good condition with wide margins. This lithograph depicts Saint Wendelin, patron saint of shepherds, surrounded by his flock, holding a shepherd's crook; in the background, a hermitage, cross, and spring. Fine impression on heavy paper, preserved with its original margins and border. Family provenance of the artist. Alphonse Charles Henri Chuquet, a customs officer based in La Wantzenau, was an Alsatian draftsman and lithographer very active in the second half of the 19th century.