Cleveland Museum of Art

Wedding at the Louvre

Gaston de Latouche

Date

1878

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Culture

France

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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 entire series at the public Paris Salon in 1879. Gaston La Touche completely changed the subjects and style of his work around 1890 and destroyed much of his early work.

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