At the Square

Original Language TitleAu Square

Series TitleL'Estampe moderne

Artist Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel (French, 1872 - 1899)

Date1897

MediumColor lithograph

DimensionsImage: 13 1/16 × 9 1/16 inches (33.17 × 23.01 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 12 1/16 inches (40.64 × 30.63 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Print Duplicate Fund, and bequest of Miss Frances M. Logan, gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Jacobs and The Woodcut Society

Object number85-19

SignedSigned in the plate: h. j. e. evenepoel

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Exhibition History

[none known at this time]

Gallery Label

Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel captured high fashion in this print. A young mother wears a bright green feathered hat, pulling her child in a polkadotted oversized bonnet. Evenepoel frequently used family members as subjects. These figures could be his partner, Louise, and their son, Charles, who would have been around three when this print was made. The woman’s hat is topped with ostrich feathers dyed green. Ostrich feathers were among the most exclusive items in the millinery hatbox. A single, high-quality feather could sell for up to 23 francs, the equivalent of one week’s wages for a manual worker in Paris.

Provenance

Published by Champenois, Paris, in L’Estampe Moderne, 1897 [1];

With Theodore B. Donson, Ltd., New York, by October 21, 1985;

Purchased from Donson by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1985.

NOTES:

[1] See blindstamp on lower left corner from L’Estampe Moderne. L’Estampe Moderne was a monthly publication directed by Masson and Piazza and published by Champenois, which appeared from 1897 to 1899. Each delivery contained four prints in color and in black of the main modern French and foreign artists. See Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d’Estampes (Utrecht: Fondation Custodia, 1921), http://www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/10030 .

Published References

Paul Lambotte, Henri Evenepoel (Brussels: Van Oest, 1908), 61, 106, (repro.), as Au Square.

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 273, (repro.), as Au Square from L’Éstampe moderne.

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