Cabinet d'arts graphiques du Musée d'art et d'histoire
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1204 Genève
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"Etching is fashionable", 1840-1910
04.09.2020 - 13.12.2020
In April
1862, in an article published in the Revue
Anecdotique, Charles Baudelaire remarked: “It would seem etchings are becoming fashionable”. Supplanted by lithography and
the use of the burin from the 1790s onwards, before the rise of photography in
the 1840s, the technique – a favourite of Rembrandt’s – garnered the interest
of the most innovative artists of the time. From the Barbizon school to late 19th-century symbolists, “printmaker-painters”
brought new life to this century-old technique and made it a preferred medium
to voice their personalities. This trend spread across Europe at a time that
saw the triumph of modernism, represented by such figures as Félix Bracquemond,
Edgar Degas, Antonio Fontanesi, Francis Seymour Haden, Édouard Manet, Charles
Meryon or James McNeill Whistler. A momentous time in the history of printmaking,
which the MAH invites visitors to discover through a selection of exceptional
prints, many of which are one of a kind, selected from the museum’s own
collections.