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Manuel Robbe'Le Pecheur, ' original Impressionist aquatint signed by Manuel Robbec. 1900
c. 1900
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'Le Pecheur' is an excelletn example of the aquatints of Manuel Robbe, a French artists working during the turn of the 20th century. The image draws upon the popularity of scenes of leisure activities made popular by the Impressionists in the decades before, such as Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot. In the composition, the viewer looks out through reeds and cattails across a tree-lined river toward a man on a dinghy. He is in the act of casting his fishing pole, reaching out over the water. Robbe has paid special attention to the effects of light, using the painterly qualities of the aquatint process to capture the shimmers on the water surface.
13.63 x 19.5 inches, artwork
28.13 x 34 inches, frame
Signed in pencil and in the plate, lower right
Inscribed 'No. 54,' lower left
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including silk-lined 100 percent rag matting with a 1/4-inch bevel, Museum Glass, and housed in a silver gilt cassetta-style moulding.
Print in overall good condition with some toning and foxing; housed in a new custom frame. Feel free to contact the gallery for more thorough condition report and conservation history.
Manuel Robbe (French, 1872-1936) lived in Paris all his life, creating images that echoed the polished splendor of the Belle Epoque. He exhibited often at the Salons, first at the Societe des Artistes Francais (winning a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900) and after 1905 at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts. A master of color aquatint, his work in this medium is characterized by stylish figures in settings with large areas of black or grey punctuated by splashes of shimmering pastels. As the turn of the century critic Gabriel Moury noted, Robbe's favorite subject was the "modern woman," her costumes, and activities and the visual elegance of her world.
Absorbing the influence of Impressionism, particularly Renoir, Robbe applied a sensitive painterly touch to techniques that fit with the new paradigm of mass production. He designed and printed posters for corsets and bicycles, seeing, like Toulouse-Lautrec, the artistic potential of the new commercial era. He also created illustrations for humorous magazines and made colored etchings of the works of contemporary artists. He was a favorite artist of the celebrated Parisian print publisher Edmond Sagot, who promoted his work.
Robbe was a pioneer of the "à la poupée" process, enabling an artist to print multiple colors from a single plate. He invented his own engraving technique known as “sugar-life,” using a mixture of sugar, India ink and gum Arabic on Zinc plates. The plates were heated, intricately worked and color was applied with brushes made of rags; Robbe then used his own fingers to perfect the tones. Such technical mastery allowed Robbe to make each image unique, imbued with a lushness and immediacy befitting of the era in which he lived.
- Creator:Manuel Robbe (1872 - 1936, French)
- Creation Year:c. 1900
- Dimensions:Height: 28.13 in (71.46 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
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- Condition:Print in overall good condition with some toning and foxing; housed in a new custom frame. Feel free to contact the gallery for more thorough condition report and conservation history.
- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
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