Tropical Landscape
1851 to 1875
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View on museum website →Medium
roulette and etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.7 x 18.6 cm (11 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 44 x 32.5 cm (17 5/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2002.157.34
About the Artist
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...