Cleveland Museum of Art

Sagot's Gallery

Georges Alfred Bottini

Date

1898

Medium

color separation proof in black

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

During the 1890s, there was a revived interest in color lithography in Paris. Originally considered a commercial art form, the medium was taken up by a growing number of printmakers as a means of formal experimentation. This print by Georges Bottini shows the shop of Edmond Sagot, a leading dealer of color lithographs during the late 19th and early 20th century. A crowd of fashionably dressed young women gather before the windows of Sagot's shop, suggesting the growing status of color lithography at this time.

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