Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926
Moonrise in the New Forest
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Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-19261914
Moonrise in the New Forest
Theodore Roussel French, worked in England, 1847-1926 →aquatintpaper
Date
1914
Medium
Color aquatint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, trimmed within platemark: 37.5 × 25.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 27.9 cm (16 × 11 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
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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