Medium
Etching; fifth state of five (Asplund)
Dimensions
Image: 11 13/16 × 10 3/16 in. (30 × 25.9 cm) Sheet: 16 15/16 × 13 3/8 in. (43 × 34 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Blanche S. Guggenheim, 1953
Accession Number
53.628.1
Tags
About the Artist
Anders Zorn|Hans Olof Hildebrand|Harald Ossian Wieselgren|Nils Adolf Erick Nordenskiöld|Carl Fredrik Wærn Jun.|Ernst Axel Henrik Key · 1860–1920
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of Sweden's most celebrated artists, was born on February 18 in Utmeland near Mora in Dalarna, and raised on his maternal grandparents' farm in the nearby hamlet of Yvraden. Displaying prodigious talent from a young age, he attended school in Mora Strand until age twelve, followed by secondary grammar school in Enköping, where he excelled in drawing people and horses. ...