The Port of Genoa
Adolphe Appian
c. 1877
Medium
etching with monoprint inking [proof] on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 42.1 x 29.2 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 42.7 x 30.5 cm (16 13/16 x 12 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2004.95.1
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...