Lille: Liebesgässchen
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 7 x 5 1/16 in. (17.8 x 12.8 cm) sheet: 10 1/16 x 6 7/8 in. (25.5 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of M.P. Epstein, 1967
Accession Number
67.671.12(1)
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Art Historical Context
" Lille: Liebesgässchen" is a delicate 1916 etching by Ernst Oppler and Ludwig Möller that portrays a narrow street lined with buildings in the northern French city of Lille. The compact plate size—just seven by inches—invites close looking, revealing the fine lines and subtle tonal variations that etching excels at capturing. The work belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, where it entered the collection as a gift in 1967. Etching’s ability to translate architectural detail into crisp, atmospheric lines made it a favored medium for early-twentieth-cent...
About the Artist
Ernst Oppler|Ludwig Möller
Comment on works: interiors; portrait; landscape