Le chant de la cigale
Medium
etching and aquatint in brown on china paper
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, gift in memory of Virginia H. Jackson
Accession Number
1996.151.207
About the Artist
Armand Rassenfosse · 1862–1934
Armand Rassenfosse (1862-1934) was a Belgian graphic artist, printmaker, and painter whose technical mastery of etching and innovative approach to book illustration secured his place among the most important Belgian artists of the Belle Époque. Born in Liège, the industrial heart of Belgium's Walloon region, Rassenfosse was largely self-taught yet achieved extraordinary technical sophistication, p...