Portrait of a German Lady
1850–1911
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 13/16 × 10 1/16 in. (35.1 × 25.5 cm) Plate: 8 3/4 × 6 15/16 in. (22.3 × 17.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3508
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the Prints and Drawings department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Portrait of a German Lady* French artist Léopold Flameng (18501911) captures the refined elegance of its 19th-century subject through meticulous medium of etching. Acquired in 1917 via the Harris Dick Fund, this intimate portrait exemplifies Flameng's skill as a reproductive printmaker and portraitist, blending academic precision with subtle expressiveness. The composition, centered on a poised woman likely of bourgeois status, reflects the era's fascination with individualized likenesses amid Europe's cultural exchanges b...
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng · 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...