Rouen from the Country by Maxime Lalanne

This is an etching by noted French artist Maxime Lalanne. This is a late work completed just two years before his death. It shows the French city of Rouen as a traveler would approach it from the country road. A description of the scene issued with the etching is included and provides details about the image. It is a very mature work by a fine artist. The etching is in excellent condition particularly given its age. It is well struck and inked. The print in signed, dated, and titled in the plate lower right. The plate size is 8.25 x 5 inches and the sheet is 12 x 9.5 inches. There are no condition issues. The sheet is free and there is no paper loss, tears, scuffs, toning, foxing, staining. A fine example of this artist's etchings.
Maxime Lalanne (1822-1886)
Lalanne, who studied in Paris in the studio of Jean Gigoux, made his Salon début in 1852. He was an important player in the etching revival in France and was a founding member in 1862 of the Société des Aquafortistes along with Auguste Delatre, Cadart, Ribot and Bracquemond. In total Lalanne created over one hundred and fifty fine etchings. His illustrated manual Traité de la gravure à l'eau-forte was published in 1866 and translated into English in 1880. He produced a second technical manual, Le Fusain, in 1869.
Lalanne provided drawings for L'Illustration nouvelle, the Société des Aquafortistes's journal, from 1868 to 1881. His primary source of income was creating prints that were then published in French art journals. He made prints after artists such as Corot and Constant Troyon for French periodicals including L'Artiste and the Gazette des beaux-arts. He also produced illustrations for books, e.g. Chez Victor Hugo (1864). Lalanne also published two documents of his own, instruction manuals on etching and sketching done in 1866 and 1869 respectively.
Joseph Pennell greatly admired Lalanne's quick, incisive pen and ink landscapes and townscapes, even comparing them favourably against those of Titian. He declared that Lalanne's etching of Richmond and the Thames, which appeared in the Portfolio, was 'the most exquisite example of his work I have seen in any English periodical'.
Lalanne exhibited in Britain at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts between 1882 and 1884.

Size: 1884
Price: $175
Size: 12 x 9.5 inches
Plate Size: 8.25 x 5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Medium: Etching
Subject: Landscape

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