Auberge de Cheval Blanc (White Horse Hotel), Orville Houghton Peets

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Orville Houghton Peets, Auberge de Cheval Blanc (White Horse Hotel)
Orville Houghton Peets, Auberge de Cheval Blanc (White Horse Hotel)
Orville Houghton Peets
Auberge de Cheval Blanc (White Horse Hotel)
1902
Orville Houghton Peets
1884–1968
Auberge de Cheval Blanc (White Horse Hotel), 1902
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: etching; wove paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 249 x 196 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 365 x 267 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 13/16 x 7 11/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 3/8 x 10 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Gift of Bud and Ruby Jennings, Prairie Print Makers Collection
Accession number: 1991.0373
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Exhibition Label: "American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939," Apr-2004, Reed Anderson Exactly when Orville Peets began to etch remains a mystery. However, he was producing etchings shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1900, and "Auberge du Cheval Blanc (White Horse Hotel)" is among his earliest works in this medium. In this etching Peets constructed a charming vignette in which the viewer visually eavesdrops on a man and two women engaged in conversation; perhaps they are all boarders at the hotel, returning from a long day of sightseeing. The thoughtfully considered placement of every line testifies to Peets’s academic training. In this work he is perhaps most effective in suggesting the effect of light as it washes over the old shingled roof and the worn facade of the building, as well as the way in which light is obscured in the darkened alley to the right.