Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011344Study for the woodcut 'Bassin des Tuileries'
About the Artwork
The printmaker Auguste Lepère is credited with reviving the woodcut at a time when it had fallen out of popularity in late 19th-century France. Lepère carefully sketched each aspect of his compositions—which often depicted Parisian life—before translating them to print. The young girl seen in this drawing figured in the foreground of an image depicting the Tuileries garden on a clear autumn day.
Inscriptions
signed, at lower right, in graphite, “ALepère.”; On verso, along lower margin, in graphite: “Etude pour le bois Bassin des Tuileries [illeg., partially erased].”
Provenance
(probably) Librarie Auguste Blaziot, Paris, France Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York, NY 1995-1996: C. & J. Goodfriend, New York, NY October 1996: Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980] 1996-2005: Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918)
- Date
- c. 1898
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and black crayon on tan heavy weight wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.9 x 14.6 cm (11 x 5 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2019.66
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