1885
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Effect of Moon at Dieppe is a 1885 by Henri-Charles Guérard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows a moonlit scene in Dieppe, France. It's a quiet moment, with soft colors. The artist was experimenting with color etching around this time, which is interesting because it was a relatively new technique. The experiment with color etching led to some unique effects. The artist was trying to create a sense of depth and mood. Check out the work of Henri Charles Guérard for more like this.
The 1890s in France was not only a decade that produced marvelous color lithographs but also beautiful color etchings. This renaissance of color intaglio prints was the result of many factors, including an interest in French 18th-century etchings—an earlier period of glorious color printmaking—and the popularity of Japanese color woodcuts, introduced in France in the 1860s. Around 1885 Guérard, an inventive artist, began to experiment with color etching. In Effect of Moon at Dieppe , he realized the glow of the lights around the harbor and their reflections in the water by burnishing away…
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Henri Charles Guérard (26 April 1846, Paris - 24 March 1897, Paris) was a French painter and printmaker, particularly in etching and lithography.
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