The Road Leading to Bellevue (Le Chemin montant à Bellevue)
Medium
etching on Japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 9.9 × 31.6 cm (3 7/8 × 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 14.9 × 40.7 cm (5 7/8 × 16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.210
Art Historical Context
Félix Bracquemond *The Road Leading to Bellevue (Le Chemin montant à)*, created in 1873, a serene rural French landscape through the delicate art of etching. Bracquemond, a figure in the 19th-century French etching revival was renowned for his precise yet atmospheric prints, often influenced by his surroundings near Sèvres, he lived and worked. This horizontal composition, with its plate measuring just under 10 by 32 cm, depicts a winding path ascending toward the village of Bellevue, evoking the everyday beauty of the countryside during a period of artistic innovation following the Franco-Pru...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres