Erik Desmazières. Square d’Orléans, Paris, 2005. etching, aquatint, roulette, Platemark: 32.5 x 23.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.); Sheet: 45.3 x 29.8 cm (17 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.). Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt, 2018.60. Copyrighted.

Square d’Orléans, Paris

2005

Erik Desmazières

Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, 1948-)

Prints

Square d’Orléans, Paris, 2005. Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, 1948-). Etching, aquatint, roulette; platemark: 32.5 x 23.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.); sheet: 45.3 x 29.8 cm (17 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.60 Erik Desmazières’ etchings and aquatints represent libraries, city views, cabinets of wonder, and other spaces rich with meaning, history, and content, both real and imagined. Through virtuoso draftsmanship and his consummate command of the technical aspects of etching, Desmazières renders his architectural spaces and cityscapes with hardened reality, simultaneously imbuing them with an uncanny sense of the fantastic and the surreal.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Erik Desmazières
Classification: Print
Formatted Medium: etching, aquatint, roulette
Medium: etching, aquatint, roulette
Dimensions: Platemark: 32.5 x 23.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.); Sheet: 45.3 x 29.8 cm (17 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: below image, left, in graphite: 46/60 Inscription: below image, center: - Square d’Orléans, Paris - Inscription: lower right, in graphite: Erik Desmazières - 2005
Departments: Prints
Accession Number: 2018.60
Credit Line: Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt
Rights Statement: Copyrighted