Departure for Greenwich (Depart pour Greenwich)
1891
Medium
etching, aquatint, and drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5590
Art Historical Context
**Departure for Greenwich (Départ pour Greenwich)** Created in 1891 by French Auguste Lepère (184–1918), this print captures a moment of departure, likely evoking the bustling energy of travel across waters toward London's historic Greenwich. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Rosenwald CollectionDepartment CG-E), it stands as a fine example of Lepère's dedication to documenting everyday urban and maritime scenes during France's Belle Époque. Lepère, a key figure in the late-19th-century etching revival, blended realism with atmospheric detail to portray the vibrancy of Parisian life and ...
About the Artist
Auguste Lepère · 1849–1918
Auguste-Louis Lepère (1849–1918), son of the sculptor François Lepère, was born in Paris on November 30, 1849, into an artistic family that shaped his early path. At age thirteen, he apprenticed in the Paris studio of the English wood engraver Joseph Burn Smeeton, honing his skills in wood engraving until 1867. He furthered his training with drawing classes under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the...