Jeanne Gonzales Painting in the Garden
Henri-Charles Guérard French
Not on view
Jeanne Gonzales, the sister-in-law (and later wife) of the artist, sits at an easel at the edge of a cultivated garden. Guérard composed this print by layering three plates inked in blue, yellow, and red. In this impression, only portions of the red plate received ink, leaving the complexion of the sitter more yellow than in other examples of the final state. After Bracquemond’s "In the Zoological Garden" (ca. 1873), this work represents the next major step in the development of color etching prior to Mary Cassatt’s masterful works of the 1890s.
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