The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Sappho
1895
(French, 1870–1899)
Sheet: 27.6 x 36.6 cm (10 7/8 x 14 7/16 in.); Image: 12 x 19.1 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Bonafous - Murat 68
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Maurice Dumont was one of the most prolific practitioners of gypsography, a printmaking technique that resulted in an embossed impression.Description
Dumont was an innovative printmaker who experimented with a variety of printmaking processes. Sappho-which depicts the ancient Greek poetess with a lyre in a grove of birch trees-appeared in Pan, an artistic journal, accompanied by an article about the gypsograph technique (see glossary). Dumont made several versions of Sappho, which is not surprising since he also wrote poetry.- Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01. "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints".
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.153