Neckerei

A sepia-toned photogravure of a playful, elegant female figure

Visual Details

Description

A young woman rests comfortably on a bed, playfully engaging with a small spaniel dog pulling at her sheet. The scene captures a suggestive, lighthearted moment popular with the late 19th-century bourgeoisie

The Subject

French academic art, bourgeois genre scenes, female portraits

Technical Specifications

Eugène Deully
Eugène Deully
Sepia or sanguine photogravure (Heliograbado)
Circa 1890
Not specified in source
Not specified in source
“Neckerei”; “Eugène Deully”; “Rich. Bong, Kunstverlag, Berlin”
Not specified in source
Not specified in source
Berlin, Germany

Historical Significance

Published by Richard Bong, a leading Berlin art publisher, demonstrating the high-fidelity photogravure techniques that successfully imitated original chalk or pencil drawings.

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