Engraving Charlotte Reine The Shepherd's Hour

This work titled "l’Heure du berger" c.1990 is a color etching and aquatint by the French artist Charlotte Reine, born in 1956. It is signed, titled, and numbered 7/99 in pencil by the artist. The image size (plate mark) is 15.5 X 20 inches, the sheet size is 19.75 X 24 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Charlotte Reine is an exceptionally gifted French artist, born in 1956 in Chamon Feuferoiles Loire, France. Her lithographs, etchings, oils, and watercolors offer us a worldview unfettered by adult sensibilities and capturing the wonder, simplicity, and whimsy of our natural world. It is a childlike absorption of images that have not been ordered, compartmentalized, and ultimately dismissed at a glance, as adults are wont to do. Reine began experimenting with her own designs on engraving plates while working as a printer for her mother, the accomplished Parisian artist Gilberte Brillant, and others, while she was a university student. At twenty, she participated in group exhibitions of young French artists presented in Paris and Nantes. The following year, she presented.