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Auguste Louis Lepère — Le Marché aux Pommes

Auguste Louis Lepère

Le Marché aux Pommes

1890

"Le Marché aux Pommes" (The Apple Market) is a wood engraving by Auguste Louis Lepère that captures a bustling marketplace scene with characteristic precision and tonal richness. Lepère, a master of the wood engraving medium, employs fine parallel lines and careful cross hatching to create subtle gradations of light and shadow that bring depth and atmosphere to the composition. The work exemplifies the artist's skill in rendering everyday Parisian street life with both technical virtuosity and observational detail.

Medium
wood engraving

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Auguste Louis Lepère, Le Marché aux Pommes, 1890

"Le Marché aux Pommes" (The Apple Market) is a wood engraving by Auguste Louis Lepère that captures a bustling marketplace scene with characteristic precision and tonal richness. Lepère, a master of the wood engraving medium, employs fine parallel lines and careful cross hatching to create subtle gradations of light and shadow that bring depth and atmosphere to the composition. The work exemplifies the artist's skill in rendering everyday Parisian street life with both technical virtuosity and observational detail.

Medium
wood engraving
Year
1890
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nostalgic, French, 19th-20th Century, Printmaking, Market Scene, Post-Impressionism, Woodcut, Everyday Life, Urban Landscape, Genre Painting

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