Description
By Henri Charles Guérard, a French printmaker and painter. This work “Soleil couchant, Honfleur” was created in 1895. The title translates to “Setting Sun, Honfleur”. Honfleur is a port town on the northern coast of France. This image was produced two ways. The other nighttime image may be found here. Offered here is a facsimile archival pigment print on watercolor paper, matted in archival board, in a deeply beveled matte black MDF wood frame, with a non-glare gallery acrylic face. 20×26 inch exterior dimension.
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From the recent New York Public Library exhibit catalog: “Henri-Charles Guérard was one of the most skilled and inventive French printmakers of his day. It was to Guérard that the Impressionist painter Édouard Manet turned whenever he needed help making etchings, no doubt owing to Guérard’s expertise as a professional printmaker as well as to his innovative approach to the medium. He reacted to a broad array of artistic styles and worked in a variety of print techniques, testing the boundaries of each. Particularly noteworthy in this regard are his works that respond to the nineteenth-century vogue for Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts, which embody some of the artist’s most original expressions.”
