Sagot's Gallery (1898): Art, History and Details

Sagot's Gallery (1898) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Georges Alfred Bottini (French, 1874–1907); Edmond D. Sagot.

The work and its context

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

During the 1890s, there was a revived interest in color lithography in Paris. Originally considered a commercial art form, the medium was taken up by a growing number of printmakers as a means of formal experimentation. This print by Georges Bottini shows the shop of Edmond Sagot, a leading dealer of color lithographs during the late 19th and early 20th century. A crowd of fashionably dressed young women gather before the windows of Sagot's shop, suggesting the growing status of color lithography at this time.

Object facts

• Title: Sagot's Gallery
• Date: 1898
• Creator attribution: Georges Alfred Bottini (French, 1874–1907); Edmond D. Sagot
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 37.7 x 27.7 cm (14 13/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Image: 31.5 x 22.8 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1998.42.5

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Intimism and the ‘Daily Tragedy and Mystery of Ordinary Existence.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 20-39. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.

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