Vendémiaire, plate 34 from Alcools
Louis Marcoussis
1934
- Medium
- Etching in black on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.7 × 8.7 cm (5 13/16 × 3 7/16 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 9.4 cm (6 1/16 × 3 3/4 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 31.7 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Vendémiaire (from the Latin vindemia, “grape harvest”) is the name of the first month of the French Republican calendar, covering September 22 to October 21. This calendar was created and implemented during the Revolution and used by the French government from 1793 to 1805.
