Sunday, August 28, 2016

Color Lithographs at the British Museum II

Jean Edmond Aman
Beneath the flowers
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Another group from the 1890s, prudently and inexpensively collected when the 19th century was ending, then migrating into the protected caverns of the British Museum while still fresh and bright. Drawings and etchings can actually benefit aesthetically from a little dirt and damage, but lithographs can only aspire to a successful impact while they remain in pristine condition, like these.

Henri Meunier
The hour of silence
1897
lithograph
British Museum

Hans Thoma
Spring on a mountain lake
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Hans Christiansen
Hour of the shepherd (hour favorable to love)
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Henri Gabriel Ibels
Clown approaching circus ring
late 19th-early 20th century
lithograph
British Museum

Louis Rhead
Woman with peacocks
1897
lithograph
British Museum

Auguste Donnay
Artemis
1897
lithograph
British Museum

Angelo Jank
Woman with parrot
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender
1895
lithograph
British Museum

Alphonse Mucha
Salomé
1897
lithograph
British Museum

Édouard Vuillard
The seamstress
1895
lithograph
British Museum

Paul Cézanne
Bathers
1897
lithograph
British Museum

Theodoor van Hoytema
Jackdaw
ca. 1898
lithograph
British Museum

Henri Jules Ferdinand Bellery-Desfontaines
The Illusion
1897
lithograph
British Museum

I am grateful to the British Museum for making these images available.