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Series Title: L'Assommoir

Wedding at the Louvre

1878
(French, 1854–1913)
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Culture
France
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Measurements
Sheet: 23.7 x 28.8 cm (9 5/16 x 11 5/16 in.); Platemark: 23 x 25.9 cm (9 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catalogue raisonné
Fonds Français 1
Public Domain
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Gaston La Touche completely changed the subjects and style of his work around 1890 and destroyed much of his early work.

Description

Although his work changed throughout his career, early on Gaston La Touche belonged loosely to the Impressionist circle through his association with Édouard Manet. La Touche explored subjects—such as that seen here—taken from the lives of working-class Parisians. This print represents a scene from naturalist author Émile Zola’s novel L’Assommoir, which detailed the rise and fall of a laundress named Gervaise. La Touche is said to have collaborated with the author on the imagery and exhibited the entire series at the public Paris Salon in 1879.
A vertically oriented drypoint on light paper, shaded with sketchy lines and hatching, depicts a central man in a top hat and patterned vest looking upward with an open mouth. Beside him, a woman in a bonnet looks toward our left. In the background, a row of loosely silhouetted figures populates a sparse gallery, where one person stands on a ladder on our left.

Wedding at the Louvre

1878

Gaston de Latouche, Cadart

(French, 1854–1913)
France

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