View of Bordeaux
Maxime Lalanne
1866
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.1 × 30.1 cm (8 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.); Plate: 23.6 × 31.8 cm (9 5/16 × 12 9/16 in.); Sheet: 27.6 × 35.8 cm (10 7/8 × 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77652
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...