Artist: Charles Henri Toussaint (French, 1849-1911)
Medium: Original Etching on laid paper.
Signature: Signed in the Plate lower left.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Market Hill (aka the Market Square) is the location of the marketplace in central Cambridge, England. Operating as a marketplace since Saxon times, a daily outdoor market with stalls continues to run there.
Charles Henri Toussaint (French, 1849-1911) was a painter , illustrator and engraver . He is the father of the painter and illustrator Maurice Toussaint (1882-1974). Charles Henri Toussaint was a pupil of Léon Gaucherel , Brunet-Debaines, and C. Waltner. He pointed at the Paris Salon in 1874 and was rewarded in 1876, 1884, 1899 and 1900. He married Louise Bédelet, daughter of the publisher and Parisian bookseller Amadeus Bédelet . He is known for his many prints contained the architecture of Paris and provincial cities ( Amiens, Rouen, Reims,… ). He also wrote beautiful studies of Oxford , Cambridge and Liverpool in particular.