La Vague, Marseille, ou le Mistral, Marseille (The Wave or the Mistral, Marseille)

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Medium

Etching and drypoint, printed in green ink

Dimensions

image: 12 1/16 x 18 7/16 in. (30.6 x 46.8 cm) sheet: 18 7/8 x 23 3/4 in. (48 x 60.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1982

Accession Number

1982.1028

Tags

Waves

About the Artist

Henri-Charles Guérard · 18461897

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...

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