# The Swallows

- By: Félix Henri Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Marjorie Hubachek Watkins Fund in honor of her parents
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/149051)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8a7099ee-14dc-b979-12d1-060265a2e4b3/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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