Rue des Plantes (Plants Street)
Medium
drypoint in black
Dimensions
plate: 26.7 x 21 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 39.7 x 30.2 cm (15 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.292
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter · 1901–1988
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...