The Port of Monaco
Adolphe Appian
1873
Medium
Etching on ivory chine applied to white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.2 × 21.1 cm (5 1/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.2 × 52 cm (14 5/16 × 20 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40711
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...