A Cusset (Allier)
Maxime Lalanne
1869
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 9.8 × 13.8 cm (3 7/8 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 20.7 × 23 cm (8 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.16
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Maxime Lalanne · 1827–1886
François Antoine Maxime Lalanne (1827–1886) was born in Bordeaux into a family of civil servants, initially pursuing classical studies and a law career. At the Institution Oré, he learned drawing from instructor Saulnier and showed early promise, exhibiting pencil and pastel works at Bordeaux's Philomathique Society in 1850, where he earned a bronze medal. Encouraged by architect Léo Drouyn, Lalan...