Young Woman at an Easel

c. 1890

Young Woman at an Easel, c. 1890. Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897), after Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849–1883). Aquatint with drypoint; image: 47.4 x 29.7 cm (18 11/16 x 11 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins 2019.242 Although Henri Guérard was best known as a printer for the Impressionists, he was an accomplished original printmaker and experimented avidly with the materials and techniques of etching. This print is one of several that reinterpreted paintings by his wife, Eva Gonzalès, a painter who died at a young age in childbirth. In this print, Guérard etched a portrait that Gonzalès created of her sister, Jeanne, also an artist, working at an easel. In addition to creating prints after Eva Gonzalès’s paintings to share her work more widely after her death, Henri Guérard worked to arrange a major exhibition of her work in 1885.