Sagot's Gallery

1898

Sagot's Gallery, 1898. Georges Alfred Bottini (French, 1874–1907), Edmond D. Sagot. Color lithograph; sheet: 37.7 x 27.7 cm (14 13/16 x 10 7/8 in.); image: 31.5 x 22.8 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1998.42.5 During the 1890s, there was a revived interest in color lithography in Paris. Originally considered a commercial art form, the medium was taken up by a growing number of printmakers as a means of formal experimentation. This print by Georges Bottini shows the shop of Edmond Sagot, a leading dealer of color lithographs during the late 19th and early 20th century. A crowd of fashionably dressed young women gather before the windows of Sagot's shop, suggesting the growing status of color lithography at this time.