Au Luxembourg (At the Luxembourg Gardens) (1897): Art, History and Details

Au Luxembourg (At the Luxembourg Gardens) (1897) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Émile Laboureur (French, 1877–1943).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Threatened by the use of photomechanical methods to reproduce images in journals, printmakers formed various professional groups to demonstrate the artistic superiority of woodcut and wood engraving for the purpose of illustration. The Society of Wood Engravers (Société Corporative des Graveurs sur Bois) published a monthly art and literary review called L'Image (1896-97), in which Au Luxembourg appeared.

Object facts

• Title: Au Luxembourg (At the Luxembourg Gardens)
• Date: 1897
• Creator attribution: Jean-Émile Laboureur (French, 1877–1943)
• Culture: France, late 19th Century
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Sheet: 29.9 x 22 cm (11 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.); Image: 20.2 x 113.1 cm (7 15/16 x 44 1/2 in.)
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1998.34

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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