A Pond
Original Language TitleUne Mare
Artist
Adolphe Appian
(French, 1818 - 1898)
Date1867
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 12 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (31.75 × 23.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-74/45
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Exhibition HistoryPrints by Artists who Influenced Vincent van Gogh, Missouri State Council on the Arts, November 1972-November 1973.
This print captures the peaceful isolation of a remote, pastoral landscape.The image is animated by a lone heron and distinguished by the intricate,tracery-like silhouettes of the bare, wintry trees. Adolphe Appian traveledextensively throughout France including in the mountainous region of thesoutheast, east of Lyon. Appian was a prominent member of the BarbizonSchool of landscape painters, and painted en plein air with Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875).
With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by May 1932;
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 290, (repro.), as Une Mare.
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