Grande Rue à Morlaix (Bretagne) (Grand Rue, Morlaix, Brittany)
1875
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 21.4 × 15.4 cm (8 7/16 × 6 1/16 in.) plate: 27 × 19.8 cm (10 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 46 × 32 cm (18 1/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.41
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...