A Villefranche-sur-Mer
Adolphe Appian
1882
Medium
etching with monoprint inking on Japan paper
Dimensions
image: 14.8 x 25.8 cm (5 13/16 x 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 20.4 x 29.7 cm (8 1/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1985.53.1
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...