La Guerre est déclarée (War is Declared)
1915
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 23.18 × 17.78 cm (9 1/8 × 7 in.) sheet: 28.58 × 21.27 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Nicholas Martin in memory of his parents, Vernon Paul and Jean Webster Martin
Accession Number
2018.132.4
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...