1974 Edgar Degas Collotype "Au Louvre: La Peinture" (Painter Mary Cassatt at the Louvre)

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Original collotype print after the earlier Edgar Degas etching, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". … Read more Original collotype print after the earlier Edgar Degas etching, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches; print size: 11-1/2 x 5 inches on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art".

Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety.

The orignal etching by Degas was a result of a visit he made with his friend, Mary Cassatt, to the Louvre. The elongated shape of the picture, the cutting off of the seated figure, the suggestion of restlessness and imminent movement, characterized the new vision of the Impressionist school. Many of the compositions were inspired by a study of the recently discovered wood-block prints from Japan, works which won the admiration of Degas, Lautrec, Manet, Van Gogh and their contemporaries. See less