Tropical Landscape

Georges Rouault

1851 to 1875

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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

Print

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...

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