Two Children in the Snow
George Du Maurier
1826 to 1850
Medium
pen and black ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 21.1 x 32.8 cm (8 5/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1995.52.46
About the Artist
George Du Maurier · 1834–1896
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (1834–1896) was a French-born British illustrator, cartoonist, and novelist whose sharp wit captured the absurdities of Victorian society. Born in Paris to Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and Ellen Clarke—daughter of the notorious Regency courtesan Mary Anne Clarke—he grew up immersed in a fabricated family lore of aristocratic émigrés, though his grandfath...