The Swallows
Félix Henri Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914)
c. 1881
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink, with black chalk and graphite and touches of black Conté crayon, on tan wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 27.7 × 37.7 cm (10 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Marjorie Hubachek Watkins Fund in honor of her parents
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Félix Bracquemond is best known for his role in the Etching Revival, for founding the Société des Aquafortistes in 1862, and for his discovery and promulgation of prints by the Japanese artists Hokusai and Hiroshige. This sheet of studies relates to an 1882 etching of the same title.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
