Près Houlgate (Calvados)
Maxime Lalanne
1869
Medium
etching on laid Japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 15 x 19.1 cm (5 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 18.8 x 23.5 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2010.131.3
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...