Mother and Child
1835–1903
Medium
Pen and dark brown and reddish-brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of a graphite underdrawing
Dimensions
Sheet :7 5/16 x 5 1/16 in. (18.6 x 12.8 cm) Image:3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm) diameter
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1966
Accession Number
66.576.10(4)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Lorenz Frølich · 1820–1908
**Lorenz Frølich (1820–1908) was a Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist, and etcher whose career bridged traditional academic training with a celebrated international reputation for book illustration.** Born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Copenhagen on 25 October 1820, he showed an early talent for drawing. He received private instruction from Martinus Rørbye starting in 1833, and later...