At Venice

At Venice by Adolphe Appian

Medium

etching on thin laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.7 x 28 cm (7 3/4 x 11 in.) sheet: 24.7 x 36.9 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1989.21.1

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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