Costal Navigation Boats (Coast of Italy)
Adolphe Appian
1874
Medium
Etching; first state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 24 cm) Sheet: 12 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (30.7 × 48 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul L. Rittenhouse,1959
Accession Number
59.580.1
Tags
Boats
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...