La Cathedrale de Rouen
1888
wood engraving
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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of July 2026
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Lepère developed an extraordinary mastery of wood engraving with which he achieved rich tonal contrasts. Felix Bracquemond, an important 19th-century etcher, called Lepère the artist who "sees as a painter and renders as a printmaker."
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