Tree Filled with Crows
Medium
Etching; first state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/8 × 10 3/4 in. (18.1 × 27.3 cm) Plate: 8 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (21.6 × 29.5 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 18 3/4 in. (34.3 × 47.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.49
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...