Portal of St. Germain-des-Prés
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 24.6 × 19.8 cm (9 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 25.9 × 20.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11777
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...