Wedding at the Louvre
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Bernard Derroitte
Accession Number
2022.431
Tags
About this artwork
Although his work changed throughout his career, early on Gaston La Touche belonged loosely to the Impressionist circle through his association with Édouard Manet. La Touche explored subjects—such as that seen here—taken from the lives of working-class Parisians. This print represents a scene from naturalist author Émile Zola’s novel L’Assommoir, which detailed the rise and fall of a laundress named Gervaise. La Touche is said to have collaborated with the author on the imagery and exhibited the...