Le Pont Neuf, Paris
Medium
Etching in black on buff wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image/plate: 24 × 19.4 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Primary support: 24.2 × 19.6 cm (9 9/16 × 7 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 29.1 × 22.4 cm (11 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133357
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...