Boulevard Montmartre
1884
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 15.5 × 21.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 9/16 in.) plate: 20 × 25.8 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 22.6 × 31 cm (8 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.58
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...