Self-Portrait
ca. 1890
Medium
Etching with roulette and mezzotint
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 11/16 in. (18.1 × 24.6 cm) Plate: 7 1/8 × 5 11/16 in. (18.1 × 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, by exchange, and A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2013
Accession Number
2013.940
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About the Artist
Henri-Charles Guérard · 1846–1897
Henri-Charles Guérard (1846–1897) was a French printmaker and painter who became one of the leading figures of the etching revival that swept through France and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born in Paris, he trained in the city's vibrant artistic milieu and developed close friendships with the Impressionist circle, most notably Édouard Manet and Eva Gonzalès, whom he marri...