Shepherd and Shepherdess
Medium
Etching; first state of three (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 10 in. × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 19.7 cm) Plate: 11 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (29.2 × 22.2 cm) Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 1/2 in. (32.7 × 24.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. Ralph Weiler, 1960
Accession Number
60.563.23
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny · 1817–1878
Charles-François Daubigny was born on February 15, 1817, in Paris into a family of artists, with his father, Edmé-François Daubigny, a classical landscape painter, and his uncle, Pierre Daubigny, a miniaturist, providing his initial artistic training. He further studied under Jean-Victor Bertin, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts, though he quickly moved bey...