Pêcheur en Canot, au bord d'une Rivière (Fisherman in a Boat)
Adolphe Appian
1887
Medium
etching with monoprint inking on China paper
Dimensions
plate: 31.2 x 46.3 cm (12 5/16 x 18 1/4 in.) sheet: 32.7 x 48 cm (12 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.371
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...