Le Réveil
1891
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 13.7 × 10 cm (5 7/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 21.9 cm (12 3/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41611
Art Historical Context
Anders Zorn's *Le Réveil* (The Awakening), created in 1891, is a delicate on ivory laid paper housed the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings department. Measuring a modest 13.7 × 10 cm for the image, this intimate work exemplifies the Swedish artist's mastery during his rise to international fame in the late 19th century. Zorn, a virtuoso printmaker alongside his renown in painting and watercolor, captured fleeting moments of everyday life with remarkable sensitivity. Etching allowed Zorn to achieve painterly effects through intricate line work and tonal gradations, biting acid into a ...
About the Artist
Anders Zorn · 1860–1920
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of Sweden's most celebrated artists, was born on February 18 in Utmeland near Mora in Dalarna, and raised on his maternal grandparents' farm in the nearby hamlet of Yvraden. Displaying prodigious talent from a young age, he attended school in Mora Strand until age twelve, followed by secondary grammar school in Enköping, where he excelled in drawing people and horses. ...