Portrait of the Critic Gustave Geffroy
by 1890
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.7 × 17 cm (8 9/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Plate: 25.8 × 19.8 cm (10 3/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Primary support: 29.6 × 24.3 cm (11 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 45.2 × 31.6 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202441
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marie Bracquemond · 1841–1916
Marie Anne Caroline Bracquemond (née Quivoron) was born on 1 December 1840 in Argenton-en-Landunvez, Brittany, and became one of the four notable women of French Impressionism, alongside Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Eva Gonzalès. She studied drawing as a child and, at age 17, began painting lessons under Auguste Vassor, a restorer who taught young women in Étampes. Her rapid progress led to a...