La Mort de peur
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 7 15/16 × 6 1/8 in. (20.1 × 15.5 cm) Sheet: 11 11/16 × 8 11/16 in. (29.7 × 22.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.93.16
Art Historical Context
**La Mort de Peur** (*Death from Fear*), a compelling lithograph by Narcisseirgile Diaz de Peña, possibly in collaboration with Bertauts, the dramatic essence of 19th-centuryism. Created between 1830 and 1876, this print hails from the active period of Diaz, a French artist renowned for his lush, poetic landscapes and figure studies influenced by the Barbizon school Though best known for oil paintings evoking nature's wild beauty, Diaz excelled in printmaking, using lithography to disseminate his evocative imagery to a wider audience during an era when affordable reproductions democratized art...