A Cliff in the Parish of Rix
Adolphe Appian
1862
Medium
Monotype on off-white China paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.5 × 27.2 cm (5 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 15.7 × 28.8 cm (6 3/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
monotype
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23667
About the Artist
Adolphe Appian · 1818–1898
Adolphe Appian, born Jacques Barthélemy Adolphe Appian in Lyon, France, on August 28, 1819, began his artistic training at the age of fifteen at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. There, he studied under the landscape painters Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat, initially focusing on fabric decoration for the city's thriving silk industry. This practical grounding in drawing honed h...