Dans Mon Jardin à Bordeaux
1868/1872 (published 1872)
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 13.7 × 10.1 cm (5 3/8 × 4 in.) plate: 16.6 × 11.6 cm (6 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 48.3 × 31.3 cm (19 × 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.10
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...