Bridge of Sighs, Venice (First Plate)
Medium
Etching, printed with plate tone
Dimensions
sheet: 16 5/8 x 12 1/16 in. (42.2 x 30.7 cm) plate: 10 7/8 x 8 11/16 in. (27.7 x 22 cm) image: 10 9/16 x 8 3/8 in. (26.9 x 21.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923
Accession Number
23.44.6
Tags
About the Artist
Frank Duveneck|Cincinnati Museum Association|Lewis Henry Meakin
Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) was an American painter, etcher, and teacher whose dark, bravura style made him one of the most celebrated and influential American artists of the late nineteenth century. Born in Covington, Kentucky, he showed early artistic promise and eventually made his way to Munich, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm von Diez. Munich's artistic culture...