The Deer Pond
1837–78
Medium
Etching; first state of four (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 4 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (11.4 × 22.2 cm) Plate: 5 3/8 in. × 10 in. (13.7 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 7 in. × 10 1/2 in. (17.8 × 26.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.142
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny · 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...