Vue du Bas Meudon, Bords de la Seine
Maxime Lalanne
1884
Medium
etching on chine collé
Dimensions
image: 13.1 × 21.2 cm (5 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 26.2 × 36 cm (10 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.57
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...