About this artwork
Roussel’s last color print is also his most abstract. Apart from the crescent moon, the composition’s details are almost completely blurred in favor of evoking atmospheric elements like light and air.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Theodore Roussel
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Title
- Moonrise in the New Forest
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Place
- England (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1914
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Medium
- Color aquatint on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image, trimmed within platemark: 37.5 × 25.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 27.9 cm (16 × 11 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
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Reference Number
- 2011.593