Le Bain, plate 6 from "The Decameron"
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Etching; proof before letter
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 3/8 in. (21.7 × 18.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3379–4
Art Historical Context
**Le Bain, plate 6 from "The Decon"** Léopold Flameng (, 1841–1911), 1873 Etching; proof before letter, Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 3/8 in. (21.7 × 18.8 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brisbane Dick Fund, 7 Step into the lively world of Giovanni Boccaccio's *The Decameron* (c. 1353), a masterful collection of 100 tales spun by ten young Florentines escaping the Black Death. In 1873, acclaimed French etcher Léopold Flameng captured the spirit of this Renaissance classic with *Le Bain* (The Bath), plate 6 from his celebrated series of illustrations. This intimate scene evokes the novella's pl...
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng|Giovanni Boccaccio · 1831–1911
Léopold Flameng (1831–1911) was one of the most accomplished and influential French engravers of the 19th century, whose exceptional technical mastery and artistic sensitivity made him the preeminent interpreter of paintings by old and modern masters through the medium of engraving. Born in Brussels on November 22, 1831, to French parents, and dying at Courgent, near Paris, on September 5, 1911, F...