Cléo de Mérode
Medium
color etching and aquatint
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Louise S. Richards
Accession Number
1992.36
Tags
About this artwork
Although a few printmakers experimented with printing etchings in color beginning in the 1870s, the idea did not really become popular until the 1890s. Müller represents this new interest and produced about 100 color etchings that combine densely bitten aquatint with irregularly wiped plates, epitomizing the turn-of-the-century taste for rich, painterly effects. The portrait of Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966), a fashionable dancer, is produced almost entirely in aquatint printed as broad planes and s...