The Poulterer
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 12.2 × 11.7 cm (4 13/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 14.1 cm (8 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46350
Art Historical Context
**The Poulterer** (1908) is a delicate etching by French artist Louis Auguste Lepère, master printmaker renowned for capturing the vibrant everyday life of Paris. Created on cream laid paper, this work measures just 12.2 × 11.7 cm for the image, inviting close contemplation of its fine lines and textures. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings department, it exemplifiesère's skill in the etching revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lepère, active during the Belle Époque, specialized in realist depictions of urban tradespeople and markets, blending meticulous de...
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...