Adolphe Appian (1818-1898) - Chemin de l'étang de Frignon, Isere - 1877

Description:
CHEMIN DE L'ETANG DE FRIGNON (ISERE) 1877 ( J.40, P.45 ). A winter scene. Signed Appian 77 in top right corner.

Dimensions:
10,80 x 19,80 cm

Literature:
Curtis & Prouté 1968 / Adolphe Appian, son oeuvre gravé et lithography (45) --- Jennings.40 ---- Appian was one of the outstanding landscape painters of the 19th century in Lyon. He was also an excellent etcher who was extremely sensitive to light and atmosphere. He was able to create a mood with line and by carefully leaving a fine layer of ink on the surface of the copper plate which prints as pale tone. Adolphe Appian studied at the École de Dessin et Beaux-Arts in Lyon, where he was taught by Jean-Michel Grobon (1770-1853). In 1851 he debuted at the Salon of Lyon with three paintings. In 1852 he moved to Crémieu, where he painted the region. He befriended Corot and Daubigny and they influenced his work. 1854 he made his first excursion to the forest of Fontainebleau, In 1861 Appian settled in Creys, located twenty-five kilometers from Crémieu and ten kilometers from Morestel. In 1863 he became an active member of the new Société des Aquafortistes founded by Alfred Cadart in 1862.F. In 1866 the two works he exhibited in Paris were bought by Napoleon III and by princess Mathilde. From 1871 until the early nineties he often visited the Mediterranean coast.Appian is one of the regional artists who showed their territory with love and grace. Besides his paintings he made 76 etchings and 4 litho. Appian was one of the artists closely followed by the publisher Cadart who's merit it was to publish their genius graphical work. Appian was responsible together with Corot and Daubigny for the renewal of the etching in the middle of the 19th century. The great esteem for his work was boosted by Atherton Curtis for Paul Prouté who published his catalogue raisonné in 1968.He based his catalogue on that one of H. Jennings published in the Print Collector's Quarterly" from February 1925

Medium:
Etching

Circa:
1873

Notes:
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