The Little Shed (Le petit Hangar)
mid-19th century
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 15.2 × 22.2 cm (6 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of James A. Bergquist, Boston, in honor of Shelley R.Langdale
Accession Number
2020.149.3
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the National Gallery of Art's collection, *The Little Shed (Le petit Hangar)* by Louis Hector François Allemand captures the quiet charm of mid-19th-century French life. Created around the 1840s–1860s, this intimate print depicts a humble coastal structure—likely a boathouse or storage shed—evoking the everyday scenes of rural or seaside France during an era of Romanticism's fade into Realism. Allemand, a lesser-known French etcher, contributed to the vibrant tradition of 19th-century printmaking, where artists like him documented humble architecture and landscapes with meticulous d...