Barbizon School Artists
date: label: Date made
content: 1883
name: label: publisher
content: Avery, Samuel Putnam
label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen James Ferris etched this group portrait <I>The Barbizon School: Seven French Artists</I> 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 <I>New York Times</I> gave a favorable review of Ferris’s print.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14508
label: accession number
content: 94830
label: catalog number
content: 14508
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 17.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 6 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 20 cm x 13.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 40.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 15 15/16 in x 12 in