Fisherman in a Boat at the Riverside
Adolphe Appian
1887
Medium
Etching with monotype printing in black ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.5 × 46.3 cm (12 7/16 × 18 1/4 in.); Sheet: 34.6 × 48.5 cm (13 5/8 × 19 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111899
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...