Woman in an Electric Car
Artist
Manuel Robbe
(French, 1872 - 1936)
Date1899
Mediumdrypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensionsimage/plate: 49.2 x 38.8 cm (19 3/8 x 15 1/4 in.); sheet: 60.8 x 44.2 cm
sheet: 61 x 44 cm (24 x 17 5/16 in.)
sheet: 61 x 44 cm (24 x 17 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineBequest of Malcolm R. McBride
Object number1989.71
Label TextGabriel Mourey, an art critic for the English serial The Studio, wrote: “Robbe especially excels, in my opinion, in depicting the modern woman—a somewhat special type of the modern woman.” He continued, “The realistic scenes imbued with a dreamlike haze...all assume a strange implication of an acutely modern feeling.” Here, the artist presents a distinctively modern and confident woman in command of the most advanced nineteenth-century technology. Along with a slightly stretched, convex perspective, the use of sweeping, swirling lines helps to evoke the roll of moving tires.ProvenanceBequest of Malcolm R. McBrideOn View
Not on view
