Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 11/16 × 6 13/16 in. (22 × 17.3 cm) Plate: 6 7/8 × 5 9/16 in. (17.5 × 14.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.781
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Smyrniotes** (1873) is a delicate etching and drypoint print through a collaboration between French artist Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, known for his Romantic landscapes and figure studies influenced by the Barbizon School and printers Emile Boilvin and Françoisénard. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department from The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, this work (plate: 6 7/8 × 5 9/16 in.) captures Smyrniotes—residents of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey)—likely on children, as suggested by its tagging. Diaz's evocative designs brought an exotic, Orientalist f...
About the Artist
Emile Boilvin|François Liénard|Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña · 1845–1899
Comment on works: painter; etcher