The Seine at Port-Maurin
Medium
Etching; first state of three
Dimensions
Image: 5 3/8 × 9 1/8 in. (13.7 × 23.2 cm) Plate: 8 3/16 × 11 7/16 in. (20.8 × 29 cm) Sheet: 11 5/16 × 14 3/16 in. (28.8 × 36 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.70
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...