Vue d’Hennebont (Morbihan)
1873
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 21.2 × 29.6 cm (8 3/8 × 11 5/8 in.) plate: 24.8 × 32.6 cm (9 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 27.3 × 36.5 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.37
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...