At the Bank of the Stream in Rossillon (Ain)
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
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|