Stormy Sunset, Jouy-le-Moutier
Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 8.4 × 11.2 cm (3 5/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 11.1 × 13.8 cm (4 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46305
Art Historical Context
Louis Auguste Lepère’s *Stormy Sunset, Jouy-le-Moutier* captures a fleeting moment of dramatic weather in the French countryside. Created in 1893, the etching reflects the late-nineteenth interest in atmospheric landscape scenes, when artists sought to convey the changing moods of nature rather than merely record topography. Jouy-le-Moutier, a village northwest of Paris, provided Lepère with the kind of rural subject he frequently explored during this period. As an etching printed on cream wove paper, the work demonstrates the medium’s ability to render delicate lines and subtle tonal gradati...
About the Artist
Louis Auguste Lepère · 1849–1918
Louis-Auguste Lepère (1849–1918) was born in Paris on November 30 to the sculptor François Lepère, immersing him early in the artistic world. At age thirteen, he apprenticed in the studio of the English wood engraver Joseph Burn-Smeeton, training there from 1862 to 1867, and later attended drawing courses under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the Petite École (now École nationale supérieure des art...