Femme de métier (étude de jeune fille appuyée sur une chaise)
1889?
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (25 × 17.9 cm) Plate: 6 3/8 × 4 3/4 in. (16.2 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.148
Tags
Art Historical Context
Marcellin Desboutin *Femme de métier ( de jeune fille appuyée une chaise)*, created around 1889, captures the quiet dignity of a young working woman in a intimate drypoint etching. Desboutin, a French and close associate of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet, was renowned for his masterful printmaking during the late 19th century. This work reflects the era’s fascination with everyday life the laboring classes, portraying a thoughtful young girl leaning on a chair—perhaps a seamstress or shopgirl—evoking the social realism of the time. Drypoint, the medium here, involves scratching directly into a...
About the Artist
Marcellin Desboutin · 1823–1902
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