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Bernard Boutet de Monvel

The Strollers (Les Marcheurs), ca. 1910

Description

Maker

  • Bernard Boutet de Monvel, 1884-1949, French

Title

The Strollers (Les Marcheurs)

Year

ca. 1910

Medium

Color etching and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 27.8 x 34.3 cm (10 15/16 x 13 1/2 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.2304

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

As two elegant gentlemen in bowler hats stroll a Parisian street, a fashionable lady enters the frame at left. While this print has the appearance of a fleeting snapshot, its making was laborious and time consuming. Multiple plates—one for each color—were printed consecutively in careful registration, with the printmaker
letting the inks dry between passes in the press so the colors did not blend.

Influenced by photography and Japanese prints, Boutet de Monvel turned to color printing at a time it had become unfashionable because of its associations with commercial advertising. He was encouraged by the printer Eugène Delâtre, who persuaded a number of artists to revive the medium, including Mary Cassatt, whose work hangs nearby in this gallery.

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