Fishing Craft near the Cliffs at Collioure
Adolphe Appian
1878
Medium
Etching on China paper colle laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.6 × 27.2 cm (7 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 24 × 35.1 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
65
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...