The West Front, Rouen Cathedral

 

Joseph Pennell

  1857 - 1926 (biography)

1907  

etching 

10 15/16 x 8 5/8" platemark 

pencil, on a tab, lower center-right 

around 90 proofs 

"imp." after signature 

Wuerth 470, illus. p. 161; LOC 1805. The plate is in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC 

stiff, tan wove 

A very early proof impression, before the clouds are added to the sky, the lower foreground lightened, the windows in the building at left lightened and the figures more defined. 

artist 

ROJA158 

$600.00 

Philadelphia-born Joseph Pennell, spent the first two decades of his career abroad, living primarily in London, where he became a close associate of Whistler. Here, he represents the main facade of Rouen's medieval cathedral, in northern France, a scaffolding erected at one end and figures walking on the plaza. The artist printed about ninety proofs.