Port of Bordeaux
Maxime Lalanne
1869
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.5 × 15 cm (4 3/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Plate: 11.7 × 15.7 cm (4 5/8 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 17.2 × 20.7 cm (6 13/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
128631
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...