The Savior, from 'The French during The Revolution'
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 2 7/8 in. (27.5 × 7.3 cm) Image: 6 1/16 × 4 1/8 in. (15.4 × 10.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961
Accession Number
33.104.2458
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Art Historical Context
Behold *The Savior*, a captivating etching from the 1843 series *The French during The Revolution*, created by artists Léopold Massard,amel, and Henri--Antoine Baron. This print, measuring just over 10 inches wide on its sheet, captures profiles of men and women in poignant portrait style, evoking the human drama of one of history's most explosive eras. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department as a gift from Harry G Friedman in 1961 it exemplifies 19th-century fascination with revolutionary archetypes. Produced over four decades after the French Revolution (17...