Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 1/16 × 11 7/8 in. (43.3 × 30.1 cm) Plate: 9 1/16 × 7 13/16 in. (23 × 19.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.542.30
Tags
Art Historical Context
### L'orage (The Storm), 1856 Step into the dramatic rural world of *L'orage* (The Storm), a captivating etching created in 1856 by master printmaker Félix Bracond after a design by Charles Desf de Vassens. This plate (9 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.) captures a chaotic farmyard scene amid an impending tempest, featuring flustered chickens, scampering cats, birds in flight, and hurried men and women seeking shelter. The larger sheet (17 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.) frames this lively tableau, evoking the unpredictability of nature in everyday French countryside life. Etching, a precise intaglio technique where a...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond|Charles Desforges de Vassens · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres