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 · 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...