Métairie sur les bords de l'Oise
Medium
Etching; touched artist's proof before first described state
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 17 11/16 in. (31.4 × 44.9 cm) Plate: 5 1/2 × 8 3/16 in. (13.9 × 20.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957
Accession Number
57.581.106
Tags
Art Historical Context
This etching, titled *Métairie sur les bords de l'Oise* (Farm on the Banks of the Oise), captures a serene rural landscape along the river Oise in northern France. Created in 1868 as a touched artist's proof—an early impression before the final published edition—it showcases the collaborative efforts of printmaker Félix Bracquemond and landscape painter Théodore Rousseau. Bracquemond, a leading figure in the 19th-century etching revival, translated Rousseau's naturalistic vision into the precise lines and tonal subtleties of the medium. Rousseau belonged to the Barbizon School, a group of art...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond|Théodore Rousseau · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres