Original etching published in The Art Journal of London after the painting In the Louvre by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret: a young watercolorist, seated on a stool, copies a large 18th-century canvas of a gallant subject in the museum galleries. Engraved by Eugene Andre Champollion.
Original etching published in The Art Journal of London after the painting In the Louvre by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret: a young watercolorist, seated on a stool, copies a large 18th-century canvas of a gallant subject in the museum galleries. Engraved by Eugene Andre Champollion.
Champollion (1848-1901), a pupil of Edmond Hedouin and Leon Gaucherel, was one of the most admired reproductive etchers of his day; Dagnan-Bouveret ranks among the leading painters of French naturalism. The original painting was made about 1889-1891.
Medium: Etching on paper.
Artist / after: The painting by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).
Engraver: Eugene Andre Champollion (1848-1901).
Date: Late 19th century.
Source: Published in London by J.S. Virtue & Co. for The Art Journal.
Condition: Good; a sheet with wide margins, with light age spots and a pale period tone, visible in the photograph.