Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for the woodcut 'Bassin des Tuileries'

Auguste Louis Lepère

Date

c. 1898

Medium

watercolor, gouache, and black crayon on tan heavy weight wove paper

Culture

France, 19th/20th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The printmaker Auguste Lepère is credited with reviving the woodcut at a time when it had fallen out of popularity in late 19th-century France. Lepère carefully sketched each aspect of his compositions—which often depicted Parisian life—before translating them to print. The young girl seen in this drawing figured in the foreground of an image depicting the Tuileries garden on a clear autumn day. In the related finished print, the young girl seen here appears next to the Tuileries’s pond, which is filled with toy boats (a practice that continues today).

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