In the Zoological Garden
Félix Bracquemond French
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. Two impressions in the collection, both of the 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.
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