Unfinished Landscape

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Unfinished Landscape

Félix BracquemondLinkedCulture matchlcp-03966be4b3a6

Date
c. 1858
Medium
Etching
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
63128

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Minnesotans might mistake this for a snow scene, but it is simply unfinished. More curious is the faint upside-down figure of the French writer Honoré de Balzac, apparently etched by Bracquemond’s artist friend Paul Gavarni when at some point he had the copper printing plate. Bracquemond must have begun this landscape thinking he could scrape out the figure or etch over it. But after etching the background and running the inked plate through the press to check his progress, he evidently decided to stop where he was. France, Europe

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Gift of the Print and Drawing Council

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