id:			156763
accession number:	1992.36
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.36
updated:		2022-08-09 09:01:34.380000

Cléo de Mérode, c. 1903. Alfredo Müller (Italian, 1869-1940). Color etching and aquatint; sheet: 61 x 44 cm (24 x 17 5/16 in.); platemark: 36.5 x 34.7 cm (14 3/8 x 13 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Louise S. Richards 1992.36

title:				Cléo de Mérode
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creation date:			c. 1903
creation date earliest:		1898
creation date latest:		1908
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creditline:			Gift of Louise S. Richards
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culture:	Italy, late 19th-early 20th century
technique:	color etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Alfredo Müller (Italian, 1869-1940)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 61 x 44 cm (24 x 17 5/16 in.); Platemark: 36.5 x 34.7 cm (14 3/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints
	opening date:   2001-08-26T00:00:00
	<i>Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01.  "Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19th-Century French Prints".

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Although a few printmakers experimented with printing etchings in color beginning in the 1870s, the idea did not really become popular until the 1890s. Müller represents this new interest and produced about 100 color etchings that combine densely bitten aquatint with irregularly wiped plates, epitomizing the turn-of-the-century taste for rich, painterly effects. The portrait of Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966), a fashionable dancer, is produced almost entirely in aquatint printed as broad planes and shapes of color that simplify and flatten the figure and define a shallow space. The very texture of the aquatint further emphasizes the surface and the flatness of the paper.
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