Art Institute of Chicago

Last Poppies

Theodore Roussel

Date

1897

Medium

Etching and softground in dark reddish-brown on bluish-ivory laid paper

Culture

England

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

About two years after finishing the plate for L’agonie des fleurs , Roussel created his color print Last Poppies . While dying poppies figure prominently in the impressively large and detailed L’agonie , they are the sole subjects of the much smaller, more abstract later etching. While Roussel realized the middle tones on the leaves and flower petals through parallel and crosshatched lines, the nearly uniform dark background in Last Poppies results from Roussel’s mastery of soft ground evident already in L’agonie .

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