Last Poppies

Prints and Drawings

1897

Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926

About two years after finishing the plate for L’agonie des fleurs, Roussel created his color print Last Poppies. While dying poppies figure prominently in the impressively large and detailed L’agonie, they are the sole subjects of the much smaller, more abstract later etching. While Roussel realized the middle tones on the leaves and flower petals through parallel and crosshatched lines, the nearly uniform dark background in Last Poppies results from Roussel’s mastery of soft ground evident already in L’agonie.

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Artist: Theodore Roussel
Title: Last Poppies
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.: 1897
Medium: Etching and softground in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image, trimmed within platemark: 7.8 × 6.7 cm (3 1/8 × 2 11/16 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 8.2 × 6.7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
Reference Number: 2011.580
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