Bathers in a Landscape (Menu à mes amis, 8 mai 1912)
Maker
Auguste Louis Lepère
(French, 1849-1918)
Date1912
MediumEtching on wove paper
DimensionsPlate: 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.6 x 14 cm)
Credit LineUniversity Transfer from Max Epstein Archive, Gift of Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, 1963
Collections
Object number1967.116.90
Status
Not on viewLepère is best known as a wood-engraver, a calling which gave him the financial security of a commercial illustrator coupled with artistic recognition for his original, single-sheet designs. Although he favored Parisian subject matter, in this etching he has composed a timeless scene of leisure which could as easily represent mythological figures as nineteenth-century bathers.
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