Root Extractors
Louis Auguste Lepère
1887, published 1908
Medium
Wood engraving in black on cream laid Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 8.2 × 10.5 cm (3 1/4 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 17.9 × 16.9 cm (7 1/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Classification
wood engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124980
About the Artist
Louis Auguste Lepère · 1849–1918
Louis-Auguste Lepère (1849–1918) was born in Paris on November 30 to the sculptor François Lepère, immersing him early in the artistic world. At age thirteen, he apprenticed in the studio of the English wood engraver Joseph Burn-Smeeton, training there from 1862 to 1867, and later attended drawing courses under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the Petite École (now École nationale supérieure des art...