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Manuel RobbeOriginal engraving by Manuel Robbe - Promenade Au Parc MonceauCirca 1910
Circa 1910
$1,792.83
£1,340.70
€1,500
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About the Item
Bathed in the gentle light of a Parisian afternoon, this charming original aquatint by Manuel Robbe captures an idyllic moment of bourgeois leisure in the Parc Monceau, one of the capital’s most elegant green spaces.
Dating from around 1910, the composition is a tender homage to Parisian life at the dawn of the Belle Époque’s twilight. Elegantly dressed women with parasols, children in sailor suits and straw hats, and the soft glow of dappled light filtering through the trees evoke a refined urban world shaped by grace and gentility.
Robbe, a master of the color aquatint technique, achieves a painterly softness and delicate tonality through his use of etching and à la poupée inking. His subtle palette, dominated by sepia, umber, and pastel shades, lends the work both intimacy and nostalgic warmth.
As a leading figure of the Intimiste movement, Robbe’s work often explored private, fleeting moments—imbued with both elegance and quiet modernity. Here, his sensitivity to gesture, light, and texture offers a window into the rhythms of everyday life in early 20th-century Paris.
A rare and poetic print, Promenade au Parc Monceau exemplifies Robbe’s unique ability to blend technical virtuosity with the evocative charm of a bygone world.
Aquatint
Paris - Fashion - France
45.5cm x 56.5cm
- Creator:Manuel Robbe (1872 - 1936, French)
- Creation Year:Circa 1910
- Dimensions:Height: 22.45 in (57 cm)Width: 29.93 in (76 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:Good condition, some soiling, one tear.
- Gallery Location:PARIS, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1792217381772
Manuel Robbe
Manuel Robbe lived in Paris all his life, creating images that echoed the polished splendor of the Belle Epoque. He exhibited often at the Salons, first at the Société des Artistes Français (winning a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900) and after 1905 at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. As the turn of the century, critic Gabriel Moury noted, Robbe's favorite subject was the "modern woman," her costumes, and activities and the visual elegance of her world. Absorbing the influence of Impressionism, particularly Renoir, Robbe applied a sensitive painterly touch to techniques that fit with the new paradigm of mass production. He designed and printed posters for corsets and bicycles, seeing, like Toulouse-Lautrec, the artistic potential of the new commercial era. Robbe also created illustrations for humorous magazines and made colored etchings of the works of contemporary artists. He was a favorite artist of the celebrated Parisian print publisher Edmond Sagot, who promoted his work. Robbe was a pioneer of the à la poupée process, enabling an artist to print multiple colors from a single plate. He invented his engraving technique known as “sugar-life,” using a mixture of sugar, India ink and gum Arabic on Zinc plates. The plates were heated, intricately worked and color was applied with brushes made of rags; Robbe then used his fingers to perfect the tones. Such technical mastery allowed Robbe to make each image unique, imbued with a lushness and immediacy befitting of the era in which he lived.
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