Rade de Bordeaux
Maxime Lalanne
1868
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.2 x 23.7 cm (6 x 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 21 x 29.8 cm (8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
Accession Number
1988.20.20
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...