Young Woman at an Easel (c. 1890): Art, History and Details

Young Woman at an Easel (c. 1890) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897); Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849–1883).

The work and its context

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

Although Henri Guérard was best known as a printer for the Impressionists, he was an accomplished original printmaker and experimented avidly with the materials and techniques of etching. This print is one of several that reinterpreted paintings by his wife, Eva Gonzalès, a painter who died at a young age in childbirth. In this print, Guérard etched a portrait that Gonzalès created of her sister, Jeanne, also an artist, working at an easel.

Object facts

• Title: Young Woman at an Easel
• Date: c. 1890
• Creator attribution: Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897); Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849–1883)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: aquatint with drypoint
• Dimensions: Image: 47.4 x 29.7 cm (18 11/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Mezzotint
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2019.242

A detail from the museum

In addition to creating prints after Eva Gonzalès’s paintings to share her work more widely after her death, Henri Guérard worked to arrange a major exhibition of her work in 1885.

Collection credit

Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins

Further reading listed by the museum

• Bertin, Claudie. Henri Guérard (1846-1897): l’oeuvre gravé. Paris: École du Louvre, 1975.

View the collection record

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