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
Rights
Public Domain
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...