Gallery Edition – Objets usuels instruments de toilette by Auguste Racinet – 44×50 Interior Architectural Study

Curatorial Narrative Auguste Racinet’s “Objets usuels instruments de toilette” (1876-1888) occupies a singular position within the late 19th-century artistic landscape, where the artist’s mastery of lithographic printing yields a visual lexicon that is at once historical and architecturally informed. This series of prints presents an exercise in restraint, wherein Racinet’s linear brushwork and chromatically austere palette of black and white converge to evoke a sense of spatial rhythm, underscoring the intricate relationships between form and function. The artist’s deliberate attention to detail bespeaks a fascination with the ornate and the quotidian, as well as an understanding of the Gothic and Renaissance design styles that underpin these artifacts.When enlarged to 44×50 inches, “Objets usuels instruments de toilette” assumes a monumental scale, its spatial depth and compositional structure unfolding like an architectural pla