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View of a group of buildings with a tower across wasteland

  • Description

    Ernest Chevalier is a relatively unknown French artist whose subjects were mostly rural landscapes. Many of them seem to share Xu Bing’s compositions and sympathy for the countryside.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › France (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1st half of the 20th century
    Artist/maker
    Ernest Chevalier (1862 - 1917) (artist)
    Material and technique
    black crayon touched with graphite on paper; faced onto blue card
    Dimensions
    sheet 15.5 x 24.3 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    inorganic › mineral › graphite,
    inorganic › stone › graphite,
    processed material › paper › cardboard
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Charles Emanuel, 1950.
    Accession no.
    WA1950.178.45

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 28 on p. 63, pp. 16, 155, illus. p. 63 fig. 28

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    • Western Art Print Room

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