
Le Point du Jour
1890
Suburban Paris emerges through delicate engraved lines, as Lepère transforms an ordinary riverside location into a study of light, water, and urban expansion.
- Medium
- wood engraving
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Félix Bracquemond
French · b. 1833

Bracquemond was a master printmaker who similarly used fine engraved lines to capture the serene qualities of the French landscape and riverscapes, bringing comparable attention to light and atmospheric detail in monochrome prints.
Charles Meryon
French · b. 1821
Meryon created extraordinarily detailed monochrome prints of Parisian urban and riverside scenes, sharing Lepère's precise engraved linework and his fascination with the intersection of city life and natural waterways.

Camille Pissarro
French · b. 1830

Pissarro produced a celebrated body of prints depicting suburban Paris and pastoral French landscapes with a similarly serene and observational quality, capturing the quiet expansion of the city into the countryside through delicate tonal work.

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