Château de Chaumont
1869
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 9.6 × 15.7 cm (3 3/4 × 6 3/16 in.) plate: 11.5 × 18.1 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.) sheet: 27 × 37 cm (10 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.12
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...