Women in the Country, plate six from Landscapes
Catalogue
- Year
- 1898
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.7 × 33.2 cm (9 3/8 × 13 1/8 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 52.7 cm (16 1/16 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ker-Xavier Roussel
Artist
Painting
Ker-Xavier Roussel was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis movement in late 19th-century Paris. Working primarily in oil, tempera, and lithography, he developed a decorative approach to landscape and domestic interior scenes characterized by soft color harmonies and flattened pictorial space. His compositions, often featuring intimate garden settings and figures in repose, balance Post-Impressionist brushwork with the symbolic restraint favored by his peers. Roussel exhibited regularly in Paris and maintained a studio practice spanning five decades until his death in 1944.
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- Ker-Xavier Roussel
- Year
- 1898
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.7 × 33.2 cm (9 3/8 × 13 1/8 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 52.7 cm (16 1/16 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1898-058069
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified