Ruelle des Halles, Vannes, Brittany
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.8 × 9.9 cm (7 13/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 20.1 × 10.1 cm (7 15/16 × 4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11936
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...