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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. 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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: In the Zoological Garden
  • Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres)
  • Date: ca. 1873
  • Medium: Color etching, drypoint, and aquatint; seventh state of seven
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 12 11/16 × 10 3/16 in. (32.3 × 25.8 cm)
    Plate: 8 9/16 × 8 1/2 in. (21.8 × 21.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
  • Object Number: 22.15.3
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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