How Cities are Born (Wedding in the Village)
1840 · Etching on ivory wove paper · Image: 7.5 × 14.2 cm (3 × 5 5/8 in.); Plate: 11.5 × 17.7 cm (4 9/16 × 7 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 32 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Daubigny, How Cities are Born (Wedding in the Village), 1840. Etching on ivory wove paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · The Charles Deering Collection
How to look at a Daubigny
- Where is the horizon? Measure it against the height of the sheet.
- Find the single boat or figure that gives the river its scale.
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