Zorn and His Wife
Medium
Etching; third state of three (after plate was beveled)
Dimensions
Plate: 12 1/2 × 8 5/16 in. (31.7 × 21.1 cm) Sheet: 19 in. × 13 7/16 in. (48.2 × 34.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Ida Kammerer, in memory of her husband, Frederic Kammerer, M.D., 1933
Accession Number
33.79.16
Tags
About the Artist
Anders Zorn|Anders Zorn|Emma Zorn · 1860–1920
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of Sweden's most celebrated artists, was born on February 18 in Utmeland near Mora in Dalarna, and raised on his maternal grandparents' farm in the nearby hamlet of Yvraden. Displaying prodigious talent from a young age, he attended school in Mora Strand until age twelve, followed by secondary grammar school in Enköping, where he excelled in drawing people and horses. ...