Saint Sulpice, Paris: La Grande Tour
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 29.7 × 23.6 cm (11 3/4 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 23.7 cm (11 7/8 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11774
Art Historical Context
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan's *Saint Sulpice, Paris: La Grande Tour* (1900) captures the majestic presence of one of the towers of the iconic Église Saint-Sulpice Paris's Saint-Germain-des-Prés district This etching showcases MacLaughlan's mastery in depicting European architecture during the etching revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A Canadian-American artist who spent much of his career in Paris and Italy, MacLaughlan was renowned for his atmospheric prints that evoke the grandeur and subtle light of historic landmarks, blending precision with poetic mood. Rendered in black ink...
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...