The Harvest (Souvenir of the Morvan)
Medium
Etching; first state of five (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 7 3/4 in. × 13 in. (19.7 × 33 cm) Plate: 9 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (23.5 × 36.2 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 1/2 in. (34 × 47 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.47
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...