Azor, the Artist's Dog, Henri Charles Guérard

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Henri Charles Guérard, Azor, the Artist's Dog
Henri Charles Guérard, Azor, the Artist's Dog
Henri Charles Guérard
Azor, the Artist's Dog
circa 1890
Henri Charles Guérard, artist
1846–1897
Azor, the Artist's Dog, circa 1890
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: color etching
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 249 x 390 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 424 x 596 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 13/16 x 15 3/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 11/16 x 23 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 1995.0049
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Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman This print, with its black outlines and simple colors free of background setting, captures the printmaker’s dog in various poses. This arrangement echoes very similar cat and animal studies seen in ukiyoe prints and published sketchbooks of earlier Japanese artists’ designs. Hiroshige’s woodblock printed volume of drawings, Ukiyo gafu [Album of Drawings from the Floating World], contains a full page of singular cats arranged in the same manner as the dog sketches in this color etching. Guérard also recreates the delicate safflower pink accents that occur in Hokusai Manga volumes.