Les Roches noires près Trouville (Marèe Basse)
Maxime Lalanne
1874
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 18.3 x 32.1 cm (7 3/16 x 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 30.4 cm (11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Greg Jecmen
Accession Number
2009.17.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Maxime Lalanne
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...