Scène dans un parc, le soir
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 5/16 in. (44.5 × 31.3 cm) Plate: 9 13/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25 × 18.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1922
Accession Number
22.1.26
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Scène dans un parc, le soir (Scene in a Park, in the Evening)** *Etching by Félix Bracquemond after Charles Desforges de Vassens, 1856* This enchanting etching captures a serene evening in a lush park, populated by men and women strolling amid tall trees. Created in 1856 by master printmaker Félix Bracquemond after a composition by Charles Desforges de Vassens, it exemplifies the mid-19th-century revival of etching in France. Bracquemond, a pivotal figure in the etching renaissance and friend to Édouard Manet, elevated the medium with his precise, atmospheric lines, bridging Realism and...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond|Charles Desforges de Vassens · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres