The Port of Monaco

The Port of Monaco by Adolphe Appian

Medium

charcoal, black chalk, and gray wash heightened with white chalk on blue wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.4 x 38.4 cm (9 3/16 x 15 1/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1990.16.1

About the Artist

Adolphe Appian · 18181898

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...

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