The Virgin Islands at Bezon (The Fish Pond)
Medium
Etching; fourth state of four (Delteil)
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/8 × 5 1/4 in. (16.8 × 13.3 cm) Plate: 7 3/8 × 6 1/8 in. (18.7 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (43.8 × 31.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.10.5
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny|Auguste Delâtre · 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...