Au Valromey, 1868

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Medium

etching with drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 10 x 19.1 cm (3 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
plate: 13.8 x 23.8 cm (5 7/16 x 9 3/8 in.)

sheet: 14.2 x 24.2 cm (5 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel

Catalogue Raisonné

Curtis/Proute 1968, no. 25, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2000.7.1

Artists / Makers

Adolphe Appian (artist) French, 1818 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in plate: APPIAN / 1868; upper right above plate: 6.; lower left below image in plate: Appian sculp.; lower right below image in plate: Imp. Delâtre, Paris; lower center in plate: AU VALROMEY (AIN) / (Vallis Romana sous Jules César); lower left in plate: CADART & LUCE, Editeurs, Rue Nve des Mathurins, 58

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Smyth-Ravenel Fund, Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P.

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

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