Rue des Marmousets
Maxime Lalanne
1863–64
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.4 × 16.8 cm (9 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Plate: 26.2 × 17.9 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 46.2 × 35 cm (18 1/4 × 13 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45340
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...