Port of Bordeaux
Maxime Lalanne
1869
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.5 × 15.1 cm (4 3/16 × 6 in.); Plate: 11.8 × 15.8 cm (4 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 19.9 × 26.9 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
10357
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...