In a Garden 1893
eugenedelatre
toned paper
light pencil work
pencil sketch
personal sketchbook
ink drawing experimentation
france
sketchbook drawing
pencil work
watercolour illustration
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watercolor
"In a Garden" is an 1893 color lithograph by French artist Eugène Delâtre, now held in the Minneapolis Institute of Art collection. The work depicts a woman in a blue dress, seated outdoors, possibly in a garden. She is shown engaged in needlepoint. Delâtre’s work is known for its delicate rendering of figures and its use of soft, muted colors. This print, like many of Delâtre's works, was created using the color lithograph technique, allowing for a wide range of tonal variation.
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Eugène Delâtre (1854–1938) played a fundamental role in the establishment of color etching at the end of the nineteenth century in France. He was trained by his father Auguste Delâtre, the premier printer of the Etching Renaissance. While Eugène began working in the black and white tradition, he created his first color plate in 1891 and In a Garden (1893) was the first color print he exhibited at the Salon. Similar to the color aquatints of American Mary Cassatt, In a Garden incorporates numerous artistic devices learned from Japanese prints, such as the emphasis on outline and silhouette and the choice of a pale color scheme. "In a Garden" was printed "au repérage," or with one plate for each color.
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