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Gaston de Latouche

Date: 1879
Medium: drypoint on laid paper
Culture: France
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

Although his work changed throughout his career, early on Gaston de Latouche belonged loosely to the Impressionist circle through his association with Édouard Manet. Latouche 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. Latouche is said to have collaborated with the author on the imagery and exhibited the entire series at the public Paris Salon in 1879. Gaston de LaTouche completely changed the subjects and style of his work around 1890 and destroyed much of his early work.

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