Stags at the Water's Edge
Medium
Etching; sixth state of seven (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 4 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (11.4 × 15.6 cm) Plate: 5 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (13.3 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (21 × 26.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1176
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny|Auguste Delâtre · 1817–1878
Charles-François Daubigny was born on February 15, 1817, in Paris into a family of artists, with his father, Edmé-François Daubigny, a classical landscape painter, and his uncle, Pierre Daubigny, a miniaturist, providing his initial artistic training. He further studied under Jean-Victor Bertin, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts, though he quickly moved bey...