Le Poule et ses Poussins
Medium
Etching; fourth state of four (Delteil)
Dimensions
Plate: 4 1/4 × 6 9/16 in. (10.8 × 16.7 cm) Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 3/4 in. (25.5 × 35 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. David T. and Anne Wikler Mininberg, in celebration of Anne's 75th birthday, 2012
Accession Number
2012.236.4
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny|Auguste Delâtre · 1817–1878
Charles-François Daubigny was born on February 15, 1817, in Paris into a family of artists, with his father, Edmé-François Daubigny, a classical landscape painter, and his uncle, Pierre Daubigny, a miniaturist, providing his initial artistic training. He further studied under Jean-Victor Bertin, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts, though he quickly moved bey...