View of Nogent
Maxime Lalanne
1883
Medium
Etching on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 9.7 × 15.2 cm (3 7/8 × 6 in.); Plate: 11.8 × 16.1 cm (4 11/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21.8 × 31.7 cm (8 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51560
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...