The Potato Peeler

1893

Edward Ancourt

(French, 1841–1898?)

Culture

France

Medium

lithograph on gray laid paper

Measurements

Image: 19.1 x 15.6 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Dudley P. Allen Fund 2024.57

Catalogue raisonné

Salomon 2

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

This print is the first of several in which Ker-Xavier Roussel collaborated with renowned master printmaker Edward Ancourt.

Description

This print presents the type of domestic scene that Ker-Xavier Roussel and his Nabi colleagues favored during the 1890s. Artists in this circle used simplified forms and bold color to depict subject matter drawn from contemporary Paris, both domestic and public. Created in the year that Roussel married Marie, the sister of his close friend Édouard Vuillard, this lithograph may be a portrait of his new wife. The figure appears fully absorbed in her task, but also completely isolated from the outside world in starkly contrasting light and dark tones.