Un Site Hollandais (A Zaandam)
1877
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 6.8 × 11 cm (2 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.) plate: 8 × 12 cm (3 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 22.7 × 13.7 cm (8 15/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.46
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Maxime Lalanne · 1827–1886
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...