Au Jardin d'Acclimatation (In the Zoological Garden)
1870s
Medium
etching and aquatint on Japan paper
Dimensions
image: 18.9 × 20.3 cm (7 7/16 × 8 in.) plate: 21.3 × 22.3 cm (8 3/8 × 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 24.6 × 33.5 cm (9 11/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.178.9
Art Historical Context
Félix Bracquemond's *Au Jardin d'Acclation (In the Zoological Garden)* captures a leisurely moment in Paris's Jardin d'Acclimatation a beloved 19th-century park and zoo opened in 1860. Created in the 1870s, this depicts visitors amid exotic animals and lush gardens, evoking the era's fascination with nature acclimatization and urban escapism. Bracquemond, a leading French printmaker and etcher, was a pioneer in reviving the etching technique, blending it with influences from Japanese woodcuts—a movement known as Japonisme that swept through Parisian art circles. The work's medium, etching and...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres