Un forgeron
Print
1833 (made)
1833 (made)
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This is one of Eugène Delacroix's most original and powerful prints, based on a lost oil painting of the same subject known only from this image. Inspired by the dramatic contrasts of light and shade in the blacksmith's forge, Delacroix has exploited to the full the possibilities of the aquatint process to render rich darks from which the iron appears to glow with heat. This is a particularly fine, early impression before the erasure of marginal technical trials.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Aquatint and drypoint |
| Brief description | Eugène Delacroix, Un forgeron or The blacksmith, 1833, aquatint and drypoint |
| Physical description | Dramatically-lit aquatint of a blacksmith standing at an anvil beating a glowing strip of iron |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides |
| Object history | Bequeathed by C.A. Ionides, 1900 |
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| Summary | This is one of Eugène Delacroix's most original and powerful prints, based on a lost oil painting of the same subject known only from this image. Inspired by the dramatic contrasts of light and shade in the blacksmith's forge, Delacroix has exploited to the full the possibilities of the aquatint process to render rich darks from which the iron appears to glow with heat. This is a particularly fine, early impression before the erasure of marginal technical trials. |
| Bibliographic reference | Delteil 19, State II |
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| Accession number | CAI.348 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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