Dans un parc
Maxime Lalanne
1826 to 1850
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 24 × 17.4 cm (9 7/16 × 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 34.8 × 24.6 cm (13 11/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.7.68
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...