Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926
Laburnums and Battersea
INV-2109
Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-19261889/90 and 1898
Laburnums and Battersea
Theodore Roussel French, worked in England, 1847-1926 →etchingpaper
Date
1889/90 and 1898
Medium
Etching and drypoint in brown, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 34.2 × 22.1 cm (13 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 42.1 × 27.2 cm (16 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
For his early prints, Roussel adapted James McNeill Whistler’s methods to express his own interest in documenting the local scene, and Laburnums and Battersea is a striking example of the older artist’s influence. Roussel developed his plate through multiple states, used a variety of ink colors, and employed selective wiping to suggest differing effects of light, water, and mist. He also chose an upright format and a larger scale than his other prints depicting Chelsea and the Battersea factories on the opposite bank of the Thames River.
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