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Auguste Louis Lepère — Fontainebleau Forest: Coalmen (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Les Charbonniers)

Auguste Louis Lepère

Fontainebleau Forest: Coalmen (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Les Charbonniers)

1890

Part of an ambitious 34-print series documenting the historic forest, this wood engraving reveals Lepère's fascination with traditional French rural occupations threatened by industrialization.

Medium
wood engraving from bound volume of 34

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Auguste Louis Lepère, Fontainebleau Forest: Coalmen (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Les Charbonniers), 1890

Part of an ambitious 34-print series documenting the historic forest, this wood engraving reveals Lepère's fascination with traditional French rural occupations threatened by industrialization.

Medium
wood engraving from bound volume of 34
Year
1890
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Industrial, Monochrome, French, Forest, Workers, 19th Century, Wood Engraving, Landscape, Rural Life, Narrative

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