Paysage à Antibes is a hand-pulled copper plate etching in sanguine, executed in 1892 by Auguste Marie Lauzet (1865-1898) after Claude Monet's celebrated Antibes paintings of 1888. It was published as part of L'Art impressioniste d'après la collection privée de M. Durand-Ruel - a landmark Impressionist publication in which Lauzet was commissioned to translate the defining works of Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, and others into the intaglio medium, creating an enduring graphic record of the movement at its height.

Monet had visited Antibes in the winter and spring of 1888, producing a celebrated series of canvases that captured the particular luminosity of the Mediterranean coast - its silvered light, the rhythmic forms of umbrella pines against the sea, and the atmospheric haze that dissolves solid form into sensation. Lauzet's etching translates this quality into the graphic medium with remarkable sensitivity, using the warm reddish-brown of sanguine ink to evoke the sun-soaked tonality of the Riviera. The delicate linework captures the skeletal structure of the coastal trees and the quiet movement of water, distilling Monet's Impressionist vision into a composition of considerable restraint and beauty.

Lauzet was among the most gifted printmaker-interpreters of the Impressionist circle. His early death at thirty-two cut short a career of exceptional promise, and the 1892 L'Art impressioniste suite represents the fullest expression of his talent. These impressions - limited to fifty examples - were pulled during his lifetime from the original copper plates and stand as genuine nineteenth-century documents of the Impressionist era, as well as tributes to one of its greatest practitioners.