Barge at the Edge of a River
Adolphe Appian
1865
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7.9 × 13 cm (3 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 54 × 37.9 cm (21 5/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40718
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...