Rural Recreation (1769): Art, History and Details

Rural Recreation (1769) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734–1781).

The work and its context

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

To create printed reproductions of his wash drawings, Le Prince refined the method of aquatint, which uses particles of resin and acid to etch areas of granular tone into the printing plate. The finished effect imitates the subtle gradations of light and shadow achieved in wash drawings like Landscape with Watermill.

Object facts

• Title: Rural Recreation
• Date: 1769
• Creator attribution: Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734–1781)
• Culture: France
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching and aquatint
• Dimensions: Sheet: 58.5 x 43.5 cm (23 1/16 x 17 1/8 in.); Platemark: 37.7 x 29.8 cm (14 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1927.334

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Eighteenth Century Decorative Prints." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 7 (July 1928): 148-152

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