The Upper Part of a Door

Félix Henri Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914)

1852

Medium

Etching and drypoint on off-white laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Plate: 30.5 × 40 cm (12 1/16 × 15 3/4 in.); Primary support: 28.5 × 38.7 cm (11 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 46.5 × 36 cm (18 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

Culture

France

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Estate of Robert Forsyth

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

At the age of nineteen, Felix Braquemond executed this print, one of the best-known works of his career. On an old barn door are nailed a crow and an owl flanking a bat; beneath them is a spar­row hawk. The small message tacked to the door beneath the birds warns against the dangers of man's predatory nature.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0

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