View from the Viaduct of Point du Jour
Maxime Lalanne
1870-1871
Medium
etching on Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 9.5 × 23.8 cm (3 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.) sheet: 20.1 × 27.8 cm (7 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.18
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...