Moonrise in the New Forest
Theodore Roussel
1914
- Medium
- Color aquatint on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image, trimmed within platemark: 37.5 × 25.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 27.9 cm (16 × 11 in.)
- Genre
- aquatint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
aquatintprintprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Roussel’s last color print is also his most abstract. Apart from the crescent moon, the composition’s details are almost completely blurred in favor of evoking atmospheric elements like light and air.
