Pêcheur en Canot, au bord d'une Rivière (Fisherman in a Boat)
Adolphe Appian
1887
Medium
etching with monoprint inking on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 31 x 46.5 cm (12 3/16 x 18 5/16 in.) sheet: 38.7 x 53.5 cm (15 1/4 x 21 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2012.67.2
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...