La Cathedrale de Rouen (1888): Art, History and Details
La Cathedrale de Rouen at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1888, wood engraving. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
La Cathedrale de Rouen (1888) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Lepère developed an extraordinary mastery of wood engraving with which he achieved rich tonal contrasts. Felix Bracquemond, an important 19th-century etcher, called Lepère the artist who "sees as a painter and renders as a printmaker."
Object facts
- Title: La Cathedrale de Rouen
- Date: 1888
- Creator attribution: Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Type: Print
- Technique: wood engraving
- Collection: PR - Wood engraving
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 1921.1413
Collection credit
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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