Henri Guérard

An African Woman, after Eva Gonzalès

Maker

Henri Guérard (French, 1846-1897)

Title

An African Woman, after Eva Gonzalès
Une Négresse d’après Eva Gonzalès

Year

ca. 1888

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Supports

wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 37.5 x 29.2 cm (14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, in pencil, at LR: H. Guerard; initialed, in red ink, at LL: G. Unidentified stamp in red ink (image of printing press) at LL (not in Lugt). Embossed chopmark at LR: Vielle Montagne.

Identification

State

unknown state

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Esther Mauran Acquisitions Fund

Object Number

2016.107

Type

Prints

Exhibition History

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris

Jun 30, 2017 – Dec 03, 2017

Label copy

Rather than using a copper plate to make this print, Guérard etched on a piece of recycled zinc that was probably a flattened watering can. The embossed mark of the can’s manufacturer at lower right-the place where older prints and drawings traditionally featured the stamps of illustrious former owners-suggests a humorous nod to the work’s humble origins.

Guérard’s print reinterprets a now-lost painting by his wife, the artist Eva Gonzalès. That painting, related to a work made by her teacher, Edouard Manet, illustrated the interest many French artists had in France’s subjects in African colonies.

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Tombstone

Henri Guérard (French, 1846-1897)

An African Woman, after Eva Gonzalès; Une Négresse d’après Eva Gonzalès, ca. 1888

Zinc etching and aquatint on gray-colored, slightly textured wove paper

Plate: 37.5 x 29.2 cm (14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches)

Esther Mauran Acquisitions Fund 2016.107

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