Barge on the Bank of a River
Adolphe Appian
1865
Medium
Etching; first state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 3 1/16 × 5 1/8 in. (7.7 × 13 cm) Sheet: 3 15/16 × 5 11/16 in. (10 × 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William H. Huntington, 1865
Accession Number
83.1.94
Tags
RiversBoats
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...