Effect of Moon at Dieppe (c. 1885): Art, History and Details

Effect of Moon at Dieppe (c. 1885) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897).

The work and its context

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

The 1890s in France was not only a decade that produced marvelous color lithographs but also beautiful color etchings. This renaissance of color intaglio prints was the result of many factors, including an interest in French 18th-century etchings—an earlier period of glorious color printmaking—and the popularity of Japanese color woodcuts, introduced in France in the 1860s. Around 1885 Guérard, an inventive artist, began to experiment with color etching. In Effect of Moon at Dieppe, he realized the glow of the lights around the harbor and their reflections in the water by burnishing away etched lines on the plate so that nothing printed in these areas. The highlights, therefore, are the unprinted white paper.

Object facts

• Title: Effect of Moon at Dieppe
• Date: c. 1885
• Creator attribution: Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color aquatint and etching
• Dimensions: Sheet: 45.2 x 61.7 cm (17 13/16 x 24 5/16 in.); Platemark: 29.6 x 47.5 cm (11 5/8 x 18 11/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Aquatint
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2009.553

Collection credit

Gift of John Bonebrake

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