Effect of Moon at Dieppe
Medium
color aquatint and etching
Dimensions
sheet: 45.2 × 61.7 cm · platemark: 29.6 × 47.5 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2009.553
Tags
male
About this artwork
The 1890s in France was not only a decade that produced marvelous color lithographs but also beautiful color etchings. This renaissance of color intaglio prints was the result of many factors, including an interest in French 18th-century etchings—an earlier period of glorious color printmaking—and the popularity of Japanese color woodcuts, introduced in France in the 1860s. Around 1885 Guérard, an inventive artist, began to experiment with color etching. In Effect of Moon at Dieppe, he realized ...