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Henri-Charles Guérard (1846–1897)
Azor
Color etching, 1888
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection
Azor
Henri-Charles Guérard was one of the most skilled and inventive French printmakers of his day. It was to Guérard that the Impressionist painter Édouard Manet turned whenever he needed help making etchings, no doubt due to both Guérard’s expertise as a professional printmaker and his innovative approach to the medium. Guérard often looked to the animal kingdom for his subjects, including his own pet dog, Azor. Sentimental portraits of “man’s best friend” were much sought after by the middle class in the 19th century, but Guérard’s treatment differs from these romantic portrayals, and his pet brims with personality as a result. This print, one of several studies the artist made of Azor, depicts him as proud and stately, with his name emblazoned above him in Roman lettering.
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