Twilight

Art Historical Context

**Twilight** (ca. 1850) is a captivating lithograph by French artist Célestin Nuil, printed by Bertauts, P. Cadet in Paris. Measuring 12 3/8 × 17 9/16 inches, this print evokes the serene beauty of dusk, a favorite motif in Romantic art. Nanteuil, a skilled engraver and lithographer active in mid-19th-century France blended precise line work with subtle tonal gradations to capture fleeting light and shadow. Lithography, the medium here, revolutionized printmaking around 1800 by allowing artists to draw directly on limestone with greasy crayon, producing rich, painterly effects without raised ...