Although "invented" by the Bavarian writer Alois Senefelder in 1798, the medium of lithography developed most rapidly in France. Lithography came into its own as an expressive medium by the mid-nineteenth century and, given the wide variety of textures and tones which could be acheived, soon became the favored technique of the many painters and sculptors who were also active as printtmakers. This exhibition featured French lithographs from the collection of the Bell Gallery and included artists such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Eugene Delacroix, Nicholas-Toussaint Charlet, Horace Vernet, Edouard Vuillarad, and Henri Matisse.

image: Eugene Delacroix, Hamlet tente de tuer le roi, 1843