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Last Poppies

A work made of etching and softground in dark reddish-brown on bluish-ivory laid paper.
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  • A work made of etching and softground in dark reddish-brown on bluish-ivory laid paper.

Date:

1897

Artist:

Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Theodore Roussel

Title

Last Poppies

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1897

Medium

Etching and softground in dark reddish-brown on bluish-ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 7.9 × 6.8 cm (3 1/8 × 2 11/16 in.); Sheet: 10.5 × 9.4 cm (4 3/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg

Reference Number

2011.581

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