A Pond with a Fisherman along the River Ain

A Pond with a Fisherman along the River Ain by Adolphe Appian

Medium

Charcoal with stumping and scratching out

Dimensions

21-5/8 x 38-1/4 in. (54.9 x 97.2 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, by exchange, 1998

Accession Number

1998.359

Tags

FishingRiversLandscapes

About the Artist

Adolphe Appian · 18181898

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...

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