1889
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le Palais des Machines is a 1889 ink by Auguste Lepère, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a huge crowd packed inside a giant glass building. The place looks like a mix of a train station and a fair, with tall arches and a big central dome. People are dressed in old-fashioned clothes, some standing, some sitting, and all looking busy or distracted. The title at the bottom, *Le Palais des Machines*, means "The Palace of Machines." This was a real building made just for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. Want to know more? Look up engraving to see how artists like this one carved their work into wood.
Louis-Auguste Lepère (30 November 1849 – 20 November 1918) was a French painter and etcher. Lepère is also considered a leader in the creative revival of wood engraving in Europe.
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