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Centaur (Le centaure)

1896

Auguste Lepère

Associated Names

Auguste Lepère

Artist, French, 1849 - 1918

This is a drawing of a scene with natural elements and poetic text. The image portrays human figures intertwined in foliage. The figures are detailed with musculature and flowing hair in a dynamic composition. Patterns of leaves and branches surround them, creating movement. At the bottom, there is a block of poetic text in French. The style suggests an influence from late 19th to early 20th-century illustrators.

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Artwork overview

Medium

wood engraving
Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number

1975.34.81
Catalogue Raisonné

Lotz-Brissonneau 1905, no. 252, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1905

Lotz-Brissonneau, A. L'Oeuvre grave de Auguste Lepere; catalogue descriptif et analytique. Paris: Edmond Sagot, 1905.

Wikidata ID

Q65566060

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