At the Square by Henri Jacques Edouard Evenepoel

Medium

color lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 33.1 x 23.2 cm (13 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 40.5 x 30.6 cm (15 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Accession Number

1994.60.16

Art Historical Context

Henri Evenepoel's *At the Square* (1897) is a striking color lithograph on wove paper, measuring 33.1 x 23.2 cm (sheet: 40.5 x 30.6 cm). Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Prints department (CG-W) through the generous gift of Ruth B. Benedict, this work exemplifies the Belgian artist's brief but innovative career. Evenepoel, active in Paris during the 1890s, produced posters and prints that captured urban life with a fresh, modern sensibility before his untimely death at age 27. Color lithography, a key technique of the fin-de-siècle, allowed for rich, multi-chromatic layers printed from...

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