The Swallows

Art Institute of Chicago

The Swallows

Félix Henri Bracquemond

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
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

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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Object type
AAT300033973

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