Sunrise
Medium
Etching; fifth state of five (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/4 in. × 9 in. (13.3 × 22.9 cm) Plate: 7 in. × 10 1/2 in. (17.8 × 26.7 cm) Plate: 12 1/8 × 17 3/4 in. (30.8 × 45.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.68
Tags
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny|Auguste Delâtre · 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...