L'Errant [The Wanderer], from Les Temps nouveaux [The New Times]
1896
19th-20th century
42.2 cm x 56.5 cm (16 5/8 in. x 22 1/4 in.)
Henri-Edmond Cross
(Douai (Nord), 1856 - 1910, Saint-Clair)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, French
Medium and Support:
Transfer lithograph
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin and Ethel Romansky, 1977
Accession Number:
1982.260
Les Temps nouveaux was an anarchist newspaper founded in 1896 by Jean Grave, who invited like-minded artists to contribute original prints that would be produced along side the tabloid. Cross’s print was the third in a series and came after lithographs provided by Maximilian Luce and Camille Pissarro. It shows a bearded vagabond with a sack sitting with his hands folded in his lap. Behind him is a vision of men throwing the symbols of government – a crown, a flag, a drum, and a Phrygian cap – onto a fire, thus beginning a new era of happiness.