The Porte de Versailles at Pont du Jour
1871
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 12.5 × 21.4 cm (4 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.) plate: 16 × 24.3 cm (6 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.) sheet: 19.7 × 27.5 cm (7 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.20
About the Artist
Maxime Lalanne
François Antoine Maxime Lalanne (1827–1886) was born in Bordeaux into a family of civil servants, initially pursuing classical studies and a law career. At the Institution Oré, he learned drawing from instructor Saulnier and showed early promise, exhibiting pencil and pastel works at Bordeaux's Philomathique Society in 1850, where he earned a bronze medal. Encouraged by architect Léo Drouyn, Lalan...