The Departure
Medium
Etching; second state of three (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in. (11 × 16.8 cm) Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (14 × 19 cm) Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (17 × 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.55
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...