Wooded Pond by the Ancient Sluice of Levaux near Vienne
Adolphe Appian
1861
Medium
charcoal with stumping and scratching out on cream paper
Dimensions
sheet: 58.3 × 99.2 cm (22 15/16 × 39 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
Accession Number
2014.108.4
About the Artist
Adolphe Appian · 1818–1898
Adolphe Appian, born Jacques Barthélemy Adolphe Appian in Lyon, France, on August 28, 1819, began his artistic training at the age of fifteen at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. There, he studied under the landscape painters Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat, initially focusing on fabric decoration for the city's thriving silk industry. This practical grounding in drawing honed h...