Past Exhibition

Colorful Impressions

This is a painting of a social gathering in an outdoor setting. Numerous elegantly dressed individuals are under a canopy of trees in a garden or park. In the foreground, there are chairs and a table with figures interacting. The participants wear 18th-century style clothing. The painting depicts movement and social dynamics. This is in the style of Thomas Rowlandson.
Philibert-Louis Debucourt, La Promenade Publique, 1792, color etching and wash manner with aquatint on wove paper, Widener Collection, 1942.9.2266

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    West Building, Ground Floor, Central Galleries
This is a painting of a social gathering in an outdoor setting. Numerous elegantly dressed individuals are under a canopy of trees in a garden or park. In the foreground, there are chairs and a table with figures interacting. The participants wear 18th-century style clothing. The painting depicts movement and social dynamics. This is in the style of Thomas Rowlandson.
Philibert-Louis Debucourt, La Promenade Publique, 1792, color etching and wash manner with aquatint on wove paper, Widener Collection, 1942.9.2266

Overview: 102 prints and drawings and 8 books illustrating the development of color printmaking in 18th-century France were shown in this exhibition. The works were by innovative printmakers such as Jakob Christoffel Le Blon, Charles-Melchior Descourtis, Anne Allen, and Louis-Marin Bonnet, who used new techniques to create full-color reproductions of paintings by well-known artists of the time. The exhibition complemented The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, on view in main floor galleries from October 12, 2003-January 11, 2004.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings, was the curator.

Attendance: 133,212

Catalog: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France, by Margaret Morgan Grasselli et al. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003.

Brochure: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France, by Margaret Morgan Grasselli with Judith A. Walsh. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003.

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