Rue des Marmousets (Quartier de la cite, vieux Paris)
Maxime Lalanne
1862
Medium
etching on laid tissue paper
Dimensions
plate: 24 × 16.9 cm (9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 34 × 24.5 cm (13 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number
1941.4.4
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Maxime Lalanne · 1827–1886
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...