At the Square
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 33.1 x 23.2 cm (13 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 40.5 x 30.6 cm (15 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.16
Art Historical Context
Henri Evenepoel's *At the Square* (1897) is a striking color lithograph on wove paper, measuring 33.1 x 23.2 cm (sheet: 40.5 x 30.6 cm). Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Prints department (CG-W) through the generous gift of Ruth B. Benedict, this work exemplifies the Belgian artist's brief but innovative career. Evenepoel, active in Paris during the 1890s, produced posters and prints that captured urban life with a fresh, modern sensibility before his untimely death at age 27. Color lithography, a key technique of the fin-de-siècle, allowed for rich, multi-chromatic layers printed from...