Au coq du brûyeres
Medium
wood engraving
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn)
Accession Number
2015.19.3236
Art Historical Context
"**Au coq du bruyères** (1888) is a captivating wood engraving by French artist Auguste Lepère, after an original design by the renowned Spanish illustrator Daniel Urrieta y Vierge, known simply as Daniel Vierge. This print, housed in the National Gallery of's Corcoran Collectiongift of Jack and Marit Vanderryn), exemplifies late 19th-century with illustrative printmaking in France, where wood engravings bridged fine art and mass reproduction. Wood engraving, Lepère's specialty, involved incising fine lines into the hard end-grain of boxwood blocks, allowing for intricate details and tonal ef...