At the Fortifications, Porte de Versailles
1898
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1898
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
This etching shows a woman hanging laundry on a line near Paris’s old city walls. A small table holds a basket of clothes. The background is empty except for a few leafless trees and a cloudy sky. Lepère drew this in 1898 to show where poor Parisians lived. The laundry line stands out as the only sign of home in a bare, almost dreamlike place. Look up Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918).
