Embers Glow
1890–1897
Medium
color etching and aquatint mounted on original aquatint mount with etched and aquatinted framing papers surrounding the impression
Dimensions
sheet: 24.3 × 20.4 cm · framed: 50.5 × 41.7 × 7 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Accession Number
2013.86.10
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
French artist Theodore Roussel took up etching while living in London during the late 1880s, developing his own techniques and distinctive style. Here, Roussel used aquatint to show a nude woman dimly lit by a fire. To accurately represent the evocative lighting described in the work’s title, Roussel mixed pigments to produce his own inks and carefully applied them to the plate with stencils. He also developed a method of registration so that the mat and frame—both his own printed designs—aligne...