L'Escoutay
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View on museum website →Medium
color engraving and softground etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.7 x 30.5 cm (7 3/4 x 12 in.) sheet: 38.1 x 49.2 cm (15 x 19 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Joseph P. DiGangi
Accession Number
2008.97.1
Art Historical Context
**L'Escoutay** (1951) by Stanley William Hayter is a striking color engraving and softground etching on wove paper, held in the National Gallery of Art's print collection (gift of Joseph P. DiGangi). Measuring 19.7 x 30.5 cm on the plate (sheet: 38.1 x 49.2 cm), this intimate work captures Hayter's mastery during the post-World War II era, when he led his renowned Atelier 17 workshop in Paris after its wartime relocation to New York. Hayter (1901–1988), a British-born innovator, revolutionized intaglio printmaking by developing techniques for vibrant, multi-color prints without precise plate ...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...