A Pond Near Rousillon
Adolphe Appian
1867
Medium
Etching on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 23.5 × 16.5 cm (9 5/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 33.2 × 25 cm (13 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41259
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...