In the Zoological Garden

ca. 1873

Not on view

As the first ambitious attempt in the nineteenth century to create a multicolor print through combining several plates (in this case four), Bracquemond’s In the Zoological Garden is a pioneering work in the history of French printmaking. These two impressions, both of the same final state, indicate the variations that could be achieved through the inking process. The artist exhibited the print at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in 1879, where his subject of fashionably dressed women enjoying the new bourgeois pleasure grounds of Paris would have resonated with the works of his fellow exhibitors.

Artwork Details

Title: In the Zoological Garden
Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres)
Date: ca. 1873
Medium: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint printed in color; seventh state of seven
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 7/8 in. (43.9 × 30.2 cm)
Plate: 8 5/8 × 8 9/16 in. (21.9 × 21.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
Object Number: 22.15.4
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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