Decoration for a Plate: Ducks
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 18 11/16 in. (30.5 × 47.5 cm) Plate: 11 9/16 × 13 9/16 in. (29.3 × 34.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1922
Accession Number
22.1.28
Tags
Art Historical Context
Félix Bracquemond’s “Decoration for a Plate: Ducks,” created in 1870, is an etching that captures the artist’s interest in natural motifs rendered with precision and elegance. The work was conceived as a design for ceramic decoration, reflecting the nineteenth-century fascination with integrating fine-art prints into everyday objects. Measuring roughly 11½ by 13½ inches on the plate, the etching demonstrates how Bracquemond used the medium’s capacity for delicate line work to suggest the textures of feathers and water. Etching allowed artists of the period to produce multiple impressions whil...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres