The Coffin Bearers
Medium
Woodcut in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.3 × 25.4 cm (5 11/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 25.2 × 32.8 cm (9 15/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60697
About the Artist
Félix Edouard Vallotton · 1865–1925
Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-French painter and printmaker whose deceptively spare imagery concealed a penetrating psychological acuity and a gift for formal invention. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved to Paris at the age of seventeen to study at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, quickly immersing himself in the city's vital avant-garde scene. By the 1890s he had beco...