Samuel P. Avery
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Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 1/4 in. (32.6 × 23.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.513
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Art Historical Context
Behold the elegant etching *Samuel P. Avery* (1876–98), a portrait print from the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints collection. Created primarily by French etcher Léopold Flameng with associations to Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (the subject himself) and portraitist Raimundo de Madrazo Garreta, this work the refined likeness of Avery, a prominent figure in 19th-century American cultural circles. Measuring 12 13/16 × 9 1/4 inches, its sheet size allows for intimate appreciation of the intricate details achieved through etching—a masterful intaglio technique where acid bites into a metal p...
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng|Samuel Putnam Avery Sr.|Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta · 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...