The Port of Genoa

c. 1877

Adolphe Appian

Artist, French, 1818 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with monoprint inking [proof] on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 42.1 x 29.2 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 42.7 x 30.5 cm (16 13/16 x 12 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.95.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Curtis/Proute 1968, no. 48

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri M. Petiet, Paris (Lugt 2021a) (1894 - unknown). (Artemis Fine Arts Sarl, Paris); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 120.

Bibliography

1968

  • Curtis, Atherton and Paul Proute. Adolphe Appian, son oeuvre grave et lithographie. Paris: Paul Proute, 1968.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: Appian; upper right in graphite: Appian; lower left verso in graphite: C.P. 48; lower right verso in graphite: 223023

Wikidata ID

Q76335095

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