Wild Cat, from "Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages"
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 6 13/16 in. (26 × 17.3 cm) Plate: 6 1/8 × 4 3/4 in. (15.5 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.463
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created around 1860, *Wild Cat* belongs to the print series *Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages* (“Etchings of Animals and Landscapes”). The work is an etching, a technique in which lines are incised into a metal plate with acid, allowing artists to achieve remarkably fine detail and varied textures. This medium was especially well suited to capturing the alert posture and dense fur of a wild feline, giving viewers an intimate sense of the animal’s presence on the small plate measuring just over six by four inches. Although the precise roles of Jules Géruzet, Karl Bodmer, and the publisher Bertau...
About the Artist
Jules Géruzet|Karl Bodmer|Bertauts (Belgian|Swiss|French) · 1817 |1809 |1830 –1874 |1893 |1860
Belgian, Soissons 1817–1874 Brussels|Swiss, Riesbach 1809–1893 Barbizon|