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Birds and Fish

(French, 1833–1914)
1866
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsPlatemark: 28.1 × 43.1 cm (11 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 33.2 × 53.5 cm (13 1/16 × 21 1/16 in.)
Credit LineArthur and Charlotte Vershbow Fund
Accession number2020.237
On View
On view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 2009, Barbara Stern Shapiro (b. 1929 – d. 2019), New York [see note]; January 29, 2020, Barbara Stern Shapiro Estate sale, Black Rock Galleries, Bridgeport, CT, lot 37, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2020)

NOTE: Barbara Stern Shapiro was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the departments of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Contemporary Art, as well as the Development Department, from about 1970 until 2003. She received the title Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2003.