Three dogs playing at center, with a cat and a dog watching in the background
Lorenz Frølich
1900
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 11/16 × 5 1/16 in. (11.9 × 12.9 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 × 9 1/8 in. (21.5 × 23.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1180.1541
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Dogs
About the Artist
Lorenz Frølich · 1820–1908
**Lorenz Frølich (1820–1908) was a Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist, and etcher whose career bridged traditional academic training with a celebrated international reputation for book illustration.** Born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Copenhagen on 25 October 1820, he showed an early talent for drawing. He received private instruction from Martinus Rørbye starting in 1833, and later...