A Stream in the Mondois Valley
Medium
Etching, third state of three
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (18.4 × 11.7 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 7/16 in. (20.6 × 13.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931
Accession Number
31.20.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny|Imprimerie Sarazin · 1817–1878
Charles-François Daubigny was born on February 15, 1817, in Paris into a family of artists, with his father, Edmé-François Daubigny, a classical landscape painter, and his uncle, Pierre Daubigny, a miniaturist, providing his initial artistic training. He further studied under Jean-Victor Bertin, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts, though he quickly moved bey...