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Auguste Louis Lepère — Fontainebleau Forest: Sandstone Quarry (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: La Carrièrre de Grès)

Auguste Louis Lepère

Fontainebleau Forest: Sandstone Quarry (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: La Carrièrre de Grès)

1890

Geological textures and industrial scarring of the landscape merge in this environmental study from Lepère's comprehensive Fontainebleau forest series.

Medium
wood engraving from bound volume of 34

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Auguste Louis Lepère, Fontainebleau Forest: Sandstone Quarry (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: La Carrièrre de Grès), 1890

Geological textures and industrial scarring of the landscape merge in this environmental study from Lepère's comprehensive Fontainebleau forest series.

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

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Forest, Wood Engraving, Landscape, Realistic, Nature, Rural, Peaceful

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