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Artist/Maker
Félix Bracquemond
(French, 1833 – 1914)
Datec. 1882
MediumEtching and drypoint
DimensionsPlate: 13 × 11 in. (33 × 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 12 7/8 in. (41.9 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object number1928.3
Not on view
Collections
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Swallows
Exhibition History
2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
2007-2008
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector, and Naturalist," September 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (unnumbered cat.).
1992
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Highlights of the Hamilton College Collection," June 5 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 67).
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
2007-2008
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector, and Naturalist," September 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (unnumbered cat.).
1992
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Highlights of the Hamilton College Collection," June 5 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 67).
Provenance
1928: Hamilton College (James Library), by gift of Carnegie Corporation
Published References
THE BEST KIND OF LIFE: EDWARD W. ROOT AS TEACHER, COLLECTOR, AND NATURALIST (exh. cat. Clinton, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 2007), 52.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh cat. Clinton, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1992 cat. no. 67).
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh cat. Clinton, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1992 cat. no. 67).
Signature
Recto, lower right margin (pencil): "Bracquemond [underlined]"
Recto, lower left (in plate): "B"
Recto, lower left (in plate): "B"
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil on mat at lower right: Bracquemond / Freude, 1833-19A
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Date: 1866
Medium: Etching with drypoint on paper
Object number: 1928.4
Charles Meryon
Date: c. 1853
Medium: Etching and drypoint on paper
Object number: 1928.14
Francisco Goya
Date: 1797-98, published 1878 or 1881
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, and engraving on paper
Object number: 1985.30
Jim Dine
Date: 1984
Medium: Etching, aquatint, sugar-lift aquatint, and drypoint with power-tool abrasion
Object number: 1989.12
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879-80
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Object number: 1998.6
Walt Kuhn
Date: early 20th century
Medium: Etching and drypoint on paper
Object number: 1987.12
Kenneth Kahn
Date: November 1963
Medium: Etching with drypoint on paper
Object number: 1966.2
Childe Hassam
Date: August 26, 1915
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Object number: 2002.8.1
Alphonse Legros
Date: mid 19th-early 20th century
Medium: Etching with drypoint on paper
Object number: 1991.117