La Cathedrale de Rouen

Cleveland Museum of Art

La Cathedrale de Rouen

Auguste Louis Lepère

Date
1888
Medium
wood engraving
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lepère developed an extraordinary mastery of wood engraving with which he achieved rich tonal contrasts. Felix Bracquemond, an important 19th-century etcher, called Lepère the artist who "sees as a painter and renders as a printmaker."

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