Additional information
| Artist | Appian |
|---|---|
| Country | French |
| Region | European |
ArtistAppian, Adolphe Jacques Barthelemy
Artist Years1818-1898
Artist NationalityFrench
TitleLe Village de Chanaz (Savoie)
Year1866
MediumPrint > Etching
DimensionsPlate: 4.2 X 7.2 inches
Sheet: 6.5 X 19.8 inches
Catalog ReferenceJennings 16
Description
Original etching, signed and dated in the plate at lower left, state I before the engraved lettering, signed in pencil at lower right, printed on fine-grained, cream wove paper.
Accession Number630195
NotesAdolphe Appian, born as Jacques Barthelemy Adolphe Appian, was a French landscape painter and etcher. He was born in Lyon and changed his name to Adolphe Appian at age fifteen. At the age of fifteen Appian attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon which was an art school which specialized in training to decorate fabrics by a local silk industry. He studied under Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat. Later he opened a studio in Lyon and worked as a graphic designer. He travelled to Paris to finish his studies and after he had exhibited a painting and a charcoal drawing in the Paris Salon in 1853 he became friends with Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny who greatly influenced his style. Appian was elected a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
In 1866, Appian's two works that he exhibited in Paris were bought by Napoleon III and by princess Mathilde. He painted at the beginning of his career atmospheric pictures in a monochromatic palette of the riverside of the Rhone and the south of France. In 1870 he changed his style to use brilliant and striking color in his paintings but he still continued to make charcoal drawings as well as small etchings of landscapes in the Barbizon style. As an etcher, he had a distinct influence on the American artist, Stephen Parrish. Appian died in Lyon on 29 April 1898.
(source: wikipedia.org)