Portrait of Meryon Sitting up in Bed
1858
Medium
Soft-ground etching or photogravure
Dimensions
Plate: 8 3/4 x 10 13/16 in. (22.2 x 27.4 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 11/16 in. (31.7 x 42.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012
Accession Number
2012.401.12
Tags
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...