At the Bank of the Stream in Rossillon (Ain)

At the Bank of the Stream in Rossillon (Ain) by Alfred Cadart|Adolphe Appian

Medium

Etching; first of five states

Dimensions

Plate: 4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in. (12 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 15 1/2 in. (28 × 39.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923

Accession Number

23.65.10

Tags

AnimalsWomenRiversTrees

Art Historical Context

**At the Bank of the Stream in Rossillon (A)** *Alfred Cadart and Adolphe Appian, 1867* Etching; first of five states. Plate: 4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in. (12 × 21.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, York, Gift of Theodore Witt, 1923. Nestled along the gentle banks of a stream in Rossillon, Ain—a picturesque region in eastern France—this etching captures a tranquil rural idyll. Adolphe Appian, a master of 19th-century French landscape etching and a follower of the Barbizon school, collaborated with publisher Alfred Cadart to depict women, animals, rivers, and lush trees in harmonious natural det...

About the Artist

Alfred Cadart|Adolphe Appian (French| ) · 1816 |1828 1876 |1875

French, Montmorency 1816–1876|

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