Le petit épicier (Chandlery)
1895
Medium
etching and aquatint in red on heavy japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 20 x 16.7 cm (7 7/8 x 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 38 x 28.1 cm (14 15/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
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
1996.151.62
About the Artist
Eugène Delâtre · 1864–1938
Eugène Delâtre (1864–1938) was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker who became one of the most important innovators of color etching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into an artistic family as the son of Auguste Delâtre, the most sought-after printer of fine etchings in Paris, Eugène quickly mastered his father's technical expertise while developing his own distinctive artistic ...