Beuzeval, Embouchure de la Dive (Calvados)
1868
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 14.2 × 23 cm (5 9/16 × 9 1/16 in.) plate: 15.1 × 23 cm (5 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 23.7 × 26 cm (9 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.143.124
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Maxime Lalanne · 1827–1886
François Antoine Maxime Lalanne (1827–1886) was born in Bordeaux into a family of civil servants, initially pursuing classical studies and a law career. At the Institution Oré, he learned drawing from instructor Saulnier and showed early promise, exhibiting pencil and pastel works at Bordeaux's Philomathique Society in 1850, where he earned a bronze medal. Encouraged by architect Léo Drouyn, Lalan...