37. Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
(1876-1938)
Rossinières

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MacLaughlan, Rossinières

Rossinières

Etching and drypoint, 1910, Bruette 163, 250 x 200 mm. Fine impression with plate tone, printed in green on Venetian laid paper with small margins, signed in pencil; a tiny rust spot in the paper. MacLaughlan was a Canadian-born, American-trained etcher who got to Europe before 1900 and explored many of the views that hundreds of artists of the next generation would later find. What permeates MacLaughlan’s best European views, the Alpine scenes among them, is the sense of discovery. This is not a native’s rendition of a familiar place, but an artist’s hurrying to “get it down,” because tomorrow he will be someplace else. Rossinières is in the Alps, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, east of Montreux. Bruette mentions that “very few impressions” were taken of this plate; we have two of them for sale.

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