La terrasse des Arts Libéraux / A. Lepere. – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures La terrasse des Arts Libéraux / A. Lepere. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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La terrasse des Arts Libéraux / A. Lepere.
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The 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris gave its terrace of the liberal arts a place in print as well as in person, and this wood engraving by Auguste Lepère was made to illustrate Frantz Jourdain's article on it in the *Revue illustrée*. The fair, held to mark the centenary of the French Revolution, drew millions of visitors to the Champ de Mars and the Trocadéro, and its buildings were debated in the press as closely as they were visited. Jourdain's piece belonged to a series on the exposition's architecture, and Lepère's engraving records the terrace in the fine, precise line the periodicals of the period prized. This impression is signed in ink and numbered 5 of 35, which marks it as one of a small run of pulls.
| Created / published | [1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving, on thin japan. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Made to illustrate article of same title by Frantz Jourdain, published in Revue illustré, 1889. L'Architecture à l'exposition universelle series. Signed in ink and numbered 5/35. |
| Subjects | Exposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France) Terraces--France--Paris--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,266 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177860 |
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