Object Details
- publisher
- Avery, Samuel Putnam
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Description
- Stephen James Ferris etched this group portrait The Barbizon School: Seven French Artists as a frontispiece for the auction catalog of works from the J. C. Runkle collection, sold in New York in March 1883. Artists of the Barbizon School, named after a rural village in France near which many of them worked outdoors, specialized in realistic landscapes and animal paintings. Samuel P. Avery had arranged the sale and the catalog, which was illustrated with fifteen etchings by four American etchers. This print marks the first time that an auction catalog contained an original etching, as opposed to the usual reproductive etchings. The New York Times gave a favorable review of Ferris’s print.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- 1883
- ID Number
- GA.14508
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14508
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 17.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 6 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in
- plate: 20 cm x 13.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 5 5/16 in
- sheet: 40.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 15 15/16 in x 12 in
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Portraits
- Record ID
- nmah_1001962
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-cc39-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
