The backs of two women sitting looking at a city from above.
Type of Print
Etching
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, ink
Acquisition
Accession
2021.05
Source or Donor
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Acquisition Method
Gift
Source (if not Accessioned)
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Charles Maurin
Role
Print Maker
Date made
circa 1890
Time Period
19th Century
Place
* Untyped Place
Paris, France
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Inscription
Location
lower left below image
Transcription
22/50 [?]
Material/Technique
Pencil, Written
Type
Signature
Location
lower right below image
Transcription
Maurin
Material/Technique
Pencil, Written
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Print
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Dimensions
Height
11-3/4 in
Width
16-1/2 in
Color
Black, White
Provenance
Notes
Anonymous gift to the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette {1}; donated to Purdue University Galleries in 2021
{1} 1981.11
Copyright
Type of License
None
Copyright Holder
Purdue University Galleries
Restrictions
In the public domain.
Exhibition
Legacy of Gifting: Donations from the Lafayette Art Museum (2023)
Interpretative Labels
Label Type
Exhibition label
Label
Charles Maurin (1856-1914), French
View of the City, ca. 1890
Ink on paper etching
2021.05.17
This etching is by the post-impressionist Charles Maurin, an artist and teacher living in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Like his colleagues, Maurin was interested in depicting the modern city and life (rather than biblical and mythological subjects). In this scene two women are shown sitting and contemplating a dense city below them including the extremely tall smokestack visible to the right belching out plumes of dark smoke. The women are wearing contemporary Edwardian fashion with little ornamentation or hats suggesting they are likely working class. The post-impressionists often depicted middle and working class figures rather than nobles.
