Auguste Lepère — La Forêt de Fontainebleau | Fine Art Print

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Auguste Lepère — La Forêt de Fontainebleau | Fine Art PrintAuguste Lepre (18491918) was a French painter, engraver, and printmaker widely regarded as the reviver of French wood engraving in the late 19th century. His prints and illustrations, marked by expressive line and tonal richness, placed him at the centre of the artistic revival of printmaking that paralleled the Impressionist movement. Printed on Hahnemhle German Etching paper the same archival stock museum studios use through a 12 ink gicle process

chrysanthemums — combine Rinpa's bold flat patterning with a modern graphic sensibility that anticipates the aesthetics of Art Nouveau and beyond

and tile designs — Acanthus

and bracingly modern for its time

Collected today as both a historical document and a masterpiece of applied political art

he developed a close-up compositional style — the ōkubi-e or large-head print — that captured the individual presence

leaving as much to the imagination as to the brush

A collector's piece for music lovers and devotees of vintage advertising art

meditative

and draughtsmen for whom the spiritual and mythological were the primary subject of art

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) was the most celebrated bijinga artist of the Edo period — the printmaker who elevated the portrait of beautiful women to a form of psychological portraiture

deliberate

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was one of the defining figures of Western modern art — the supreme colourist

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