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The Little Cloud

A work made of color print from three textile plates on off-white wove paper.

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  • A work made of color print from three textile plates on off-white wove paper.

Date:

1923

Artist:

Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926

About this artwork

Roussel made a larger version of this subject with slightly different colors in the same experimental medium, and he depicted the three bathing huts and cloud formation a third time that year in A Morning by the Sea. This is the only known impression of the small version of the “Roussel Medium” print.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Theodore Roussel

Title

The Little Cloud

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1923

Medium

Color print from three textile plates on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 5.1 × 7.8 cm (2 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Sheet: 12.7 × 14.3 cm (5 × 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg

Reference Number

2011.616

Extended information about this artwork

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