Laburnums at Battersea
Date1889/1890; 1898
Artist
Theodore Roussel
(French painter and printmaker, active in Great Britain, 1847–1926)
MediumEtching and drypoint in brown ink, with selective wiping of plate tone
Dimensionsplate: 13 7/16 × 8 11/16 in. (34.2 × 22.1 cm)
sheet: 16 9/16 × 10 11/16 in. (42.1 × 27.2 cm)
sheet: 16 9/16 × 10 11/16 in. (42.1 × 27.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2015
Object number2015-68
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBorn in Lorient, Brittany, Roussel spent almost all of his working life in England. In 1877 he moved to London, meeting James McNeill Whistler in1887 and initiating a decade-long friendship. With Whistler’s encouragement Roussel produced his first etchings of Chelsea in the spring of 1887. Both artists worked together and Roussel mimicked Whistler’s process of drawing from nature, printing his own plates, and trimming the sheets to the plate mark while leaving a tab for his signature.
Wladislaw Theodore Benda
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