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Study for the woodcut 'Bassin des Tuileries'
Auguste-Louis Lepèrec. 1898
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The printmaker Auguste Lepère is credited with reviving the woodcut at a time when it had fallen out of popularity in late 19th-century France. Lepère carefully sketched each aspect of his compositions—which often depicted Parisian life—before translating them to print. The young girl seen in this drawing figured in the foreground of an image depicting the Tuileries garden on a clear autumn day.
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- Title: Study for the woodcut 'Bassin des Tuileries'
- Creator: Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849-1918)
- Date Created: c. 1898
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 27.9 x 14.6 cm (11 x 5 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (probably) Librarie Auguste Blaziot, Paris, France, Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York, NY, C. & J. Goodfriend, New York, NY, Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980], Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008], the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.66
- Medium: watercolor, gouache, and black crayon on tan heavy weight wove paper
- Inscriptions: signed, at lower right, in graphite, “ALepère.”, On verso, along lower margin, in graphite: “Etude pour le bois Bassin des Tuileries [illeg., partially erased].”
- Fun Fact: In the related finished print, the young girl seen here appears next to the Tuileries’s pond, which is filled with toy boats (a practice that continues today).
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th/20th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2019.66
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