The Concièrgerie, Paris
Medium
Etching with aquatint in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 31.2 × 38.1 cm (12 5/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 38.6 cm (12 11/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11651
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...