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).

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 1800s and early 1900s. 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)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color separation proofs in various colors
• Dimensions: Sheet: 37.7 x 28.1 cm (14 13/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Apparatus
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1998.42

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.

View the collection record

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