The Marshes of Burbanche (Marais de la Burbanche)
Adolphe Appian
1869
Medium
etching on Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 42.23 × 29.21 cm (16 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 58.1 × 39.69 cm (22 7/8 × 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2019.25.2
About the Artist
Adolphe Appian · 1818–1898
Adolphe Appian, born Jacques Barthélemy Adolphe Appian in Lyon, France, on August 28, 1819, began his artistic training at the age of fifteen at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. There, he studied under the landscape painters Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat, initially focusing on fabric decoration for the city's thriving silk industry. This practical grounding in drawing honed h...