Fan Design with Cats and Sunflowers
ca. 1885–90
Medium
Pen and black ink over black chalk or graphite, gouache and gold leaf on prepared (stiffened) patterned silk
Dimensions
12 1/16 × 23 3/4 in. (30.6 × 60.4 cm) [semicircle]
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert Tuggle and Paul Jeromack, 2015
Accession Number
2015.744.1
Tags
About the Artist
Henri-Charles Guérard · 1846–1897
Henri-Charles Guérard (1846–1897) was a French printmaker and painter who became one of the leading figures of the etching revival that swept through France and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born in Paris, he trained in the city's vibrant artistic milieu and developed close friendships with the Impressionist circle, most notably Édouard Manet and Eva Gonzalès, whom he marri...