Head Study of a Fisherman from Capri
Lorenz Frølich
ca. 1849
Medium
Watercolor, heightened with white gouache, over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 9 7/16 in. (29.4 × 23.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Laura Pecheur, 2014
Accession Number
2014.205
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
PortraitsMen
About the Artist
Lorenz Frølich · 1820–1908
**Lorenz Frølich (1820–1908) was a Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist, and etcher whose career bridged traditional academic training with a celebrated international reputation for book illustration.** Born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Copenhagen on 25 October 1820, he showed an early talent for drawing. He received private instruction from Martinus Rørbye starting in 1833, and later...