L'Agonie des Fleurs (Black and White Version)

Prints and Drawings

1890–95

Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926

This still life is Roussel’s best-known print and represents the culmination of his experiments in combining soft ground and aquatint with line etching. The powerful effect of rich blacks, subtle grays, and sensitively placed brighter, unetched areas elevates the unpretentious subject matter—an arrangement of dying flowers in a vase of decorative stoneware, which was readily available for purchase in late 19th-century London.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Theodore Roussel
Title: L'Agonie des Fleurs (Black and White Version)
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890–1895
Medium: Etching, softground, and aquatint in black on cream wove imitation Japanese paper
Dimensions: Image: 44.5 × 34.6 cm (17 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 45.2 × 34.8 cm (17 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 48.2 × 36.9 cm (19 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
Reference Number: 2011.480
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Hausberg 45 VII/IX

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