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Etching Artists

11,076 works at MoMA 8 nationalities

Leading Artists in Etching

  1. 663 Marc Chagall French
  2. 466 Pablo Picasso Spanish
  3. 386 Louise Bourgeois American
  4. 336 Sol LeWitt American
  5. 324 Thomas Bewick British
  6. 261 José Antonio Suárez Londoño Colombian
  7. 232 Georges Rouault French
  8. 200 Thomas Schütte German
  9. 192 André Dunoyer de Segonzac French
  10. 179 Francisco de Goya Spanish

National Distribution

NationalityWorksShare
American358832.4%
French249522.5%
Spanish10359.3%
British9158.3%
German8377.6%
Italian2842.6%
Colombian2702.4%
Mexican1841.7%

Classification Sub-types

Classification Works Share
Print 5961 53.8%
Illustrated Book 5057 45.7%
Architecture 31 0.3%
Portfolio 5 0%
Design 5 0%
Multiple 4 0%
Photograph 4 0%
Drawing 3 0%

Department Distribution

  • Drawings and Prints (MET) — 16654
  • Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 11035
  • Architecture & Design (MOMA) — 36
  • Modern and Contemporary Art (MET) — 5
  • Photography (MOMA) — 4
  • Arms and Armor (MET) — 3
  • Painting & Sculpture (MOMA) — 1
  • Photographs (MET) — 1
  • Robert Lehman Collection (MET) — 1
  • The American Wing (MET) — 1

Production by Decade

83
0s
79
1790s
424
1810s
7
1830s
1
1840s
6
1850s
20
1860s
18
1870s
68
1880s
128
1890s
237
1900s
547
1910s
1208
1920s
1165
1930s
737
1940s
519
1950s
1455
1960s
1002
1970s
969
1980s
876
1990s
1152
2000s
328
2010s
47
2020s

Physical Scale Distribution

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)667364.6%
Medium (30–100 cm)345133.4%
Large (1–3 m)2132.1%

Artist Birth Cohorts

1
1725–1749
1
1750–1774
2
1775–1799
5
1800–1824
16
1825–1849
54
1850–1874
160
1875–1899
245
1900–1924
447
1925–1949
147
1950–1974
13
1975–1999

Gender of Artists Working in Etching

  • Male — 956
  • Female — 192
  • Male (trans? ftm?) — 1

Met Cultural Context

CultureCountryMet Records
French2
French, Paris1
British, London1

On View Now

10 Etching works currently installed in Met galleries

Notable Highlights

The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1519

Landscape with a Double Spruce

Albrecht Altdorfer · ca. 1521–22

Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Hercules Segers · ca. 1625–30

Self-Portrait, from "The Iconography"

Anthony van Dyck|Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1640

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)|Matthys van de Merwede, Lord of Clootwyck|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · ca. 1645–47 (published 1648)

Reclining Female Nude

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1658

Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from 'Views' (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

Joseph Smith|Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1741

The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Giovanni Bouchard · ca. 1749–50