Une Negress d'après Eva Gonzalès (A Negress, after Eva Gonzalès)
Medium
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone, printed in brown and black ink; second state of two
Dimensions
plate: 14 5/8 x 11 7/16 in. (37.2 x 29 cm) sheet: 18 11/16 x 13 1/2 in. (47.4 x 34.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.617.38
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Eva Gonzalès|Henri-Charles Guérard · 1847–1883
**Eva Gonzalès** (1847–1883) was a French Impressionist painter recognized as one of the four most prominent female artists in the movement, alongside Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Marie Bracquemond. Born Eva Carola Jeanne Emmanuela Antoinette Gonzalès in Paris on 19 April 1847, she grew up immersed in literary and artistic circles thanks to her father, the writer Emmanuel Gonzalès. At sixtee...