(Crucifixion)

 

Eugene Joors

  1850 - 1910 (biography)

c. 1865 -1885 

etching 

14 1/16 x 8 1/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

working proof 

pencilled annotations that have been crossed out (illegible), lower left margin 

 

heavy, fibrous, textured cardstock or cardboard 

 

 

JUGE118 

$250.00 

Joors is best known for his oil paintings, but he was also an accomplished intaglio printmaker who trained under Flemish engraver Jean Baptiste Michiels when he was still a teenager. This work shows evidence of his process with pencilled lines and notes (now illegible) in the margins. The work is printed on what looks like an early prototype of contemporary cardboard: a pulpy, textured, unbleached wove that is thick, soft, and sturdy. These elements suggest that this impression is a working proof.