The Search for an Inn
Medium
Etching; fifth state of seven (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 4 9/16 × 6 11/16 in. (11.6 × 17 cm) Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (13.9 × 19.2 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 10 1/16 in. (18 × 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.52
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...