Coupe de raisins – Vintage Wall Art
![Coupe de raisins, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f6/f676c85a1179-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Coupe de raisins in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Coupe de raisins
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The title, *Coupe de raisins*, is French for a bunch of grapes, so the subject is fruit rendered for its own sake. The print is a mezzotint, a process in which the printmaker roughens an entire copper plate with a rocker tool and then scrapes or burnishes areas smooth, so the forms emerge from a dark ground rather than from drawn lines. The record credits Yozo Hamaguchi as the maker, but the caption card gives no date, so the print's exact period remains uncertain. Mezzotint was valued for its soft, velvety tones, and it is worth looking closely at how the modeling of light and shadow on the grapes differs from line-based printing.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : mezzotint. |
| Notes | Mezzotint by Yozo Hamaguchi. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A.W. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,346 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172491 |
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