Cathedral, Rouen
John Marin
1909
- Medium
- Etching, selectively wiped, on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 25 × 20 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 29.8 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
In Cathedral, Rouen, Marin evoked the grandeur of the massive church less through an elaboration of architectural detail than through the piling up of vertical lines, harnessing the energy of the towers’ skyward thrust.
