Das Mappenwerk der Insel
Eugène Delâtre
1900
Medium
color etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 23.2 × 15.9 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 36 × 27.6 cm (14 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection
Accession Number
2005.157.7.5
About the Artist
Eugène Delâtre · 1864–1938
Eugène Delâtre (1864–1938) was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker who became one of the most important innovators of color etching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into an artistic family as the son of Auguste Delâtre, the most sought-after printer of fine etchings in Paris, Eugène quickly mastered his father's technical expertise while developing his own distinctive artistic ...