San Pietro in Castello (Small Plate)
Frank Duveneck
1883
Medium
Etching in black on cream Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Plate: 28 × 34 cm (11 1/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 42.3 × 49.2 cm (16 11/16 × 19 3/8 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
261635
About the Artist
Frank Duveneck
Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) was an American painter, etcher, and teacher whose dark, bravura style made him one of the most celebrated and influential American artists of the late nineteenth century. Born in Covington, Kentucky, he showed early artistic promise and eventually made his way to Munich, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm von Diez. Munich's artistic culture...