Le Bonjour
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (16.8 × 11.4 cm) Sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 13/16 in. (25 × 17.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960
Accession Number
60.598.36
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Le Bonjour** is a delicate photogravure print created after a work by the French artist Charles-Edouard Delort ( 1856–96), published by the esteemed Paris firm Boussod, Val & Co. This intimate piece, measuring just 6⅝ × 4½ inches on the plate, captures a moment tagged simply as "Women," evoking the charm of everyday greetings in a refined, late 19th-century style. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, entered the collection through the generous bequest of Julia H. Manges in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, in 1960. Photogravure, a pioneering pho...
About the Artist
Charles-Edouard Delort|Boussod, Valadon and Co. (American|French) · 1822 |1841 –1904 |1895
American, New York 1822–1904 New York|French, Nîmes 1841–1895 Saint-Eugène