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Artist:
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Henri-Charles Guérard
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Title:
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Les Lapins (Rabbits)
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Date:
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c. 1891 (published 1893)
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Medium:
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Woodcut on buff paper
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Dimensions:
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12 15/16 x 9 1/8 in. (32.86 x 23.18 cm) (image)
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Credit Line:
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The William M. Ladd Collection
Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
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Location:
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Gallery Not on view
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Henri Guérard got a solid education in Japanese art when Louis Gonse chose him to illustrate some 200 objects for his L'Art japonais (1883). In 1890 when Guérard interrupted his career as a painter-etcher to explore woodcut, Hokusai's spare animal images were clearly on his mind. The power of this stolid pair comes from the stark light-dark silhouettes, overlapped shapes, minimal modeling, and brilliant use of the buff paper as a "color."
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Guérard, Henri-Charles
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1846 - 1897
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Object Description
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Classification:
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Print
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France
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Edition:
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Edition of 100
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Accession #:
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P.2,248
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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