Sagot's Gallery

Description

During the 1890s, there was a revived interest in color lithography in Paris. Originally considered a commercial art form, the medium was taken up by a growing number of printmakers as a means of formal experimentation. This print by Georges Bottini shows the shop of Edmond Sagot, a leading dealer of color lithographs during the late 19th and early 20th century. A crowd of fashionably dressed young women gather before the windows of Sagot's shop, suggesting the growing status of color lithography at this time.

Provenance

Edmond D. Sagot's great grandson

Sagot's Gallery

Georges Alfred Bottini

1898

Accession Number

1998.42.3

Medium

cancellation proof

Dimensions

Sheet: 37.8 x 28.1 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/16 in.); Image: 31.5 x 22.8 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund