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Environs de Rix (Ain)

Series TitleEtchings and Etchers
Artist Adolphe Appian (French, 1818 - 1898)
Printer Auguste Delâtre (French, 1822 - 1907)
Dateca. 1864
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 6 × 3 inches (15.24 × 7.62 cm)
Mat: 12 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (30.8 × 23.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bloch
Object number2022.9.2
SignedSigned at lower left: A. Appian sculp. Inscribed at lower center: ENVIRONS DE RIX (Ain) Inscribed at lower right: Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, 303, Paris.
Edition/State/Proofthird state
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionIn the background of this landscape, two trees are backlit by the sunlight. At center left, a figure sits at the edge of a stone wall or bridge and looks out onto a body of water. At the lower right, the ground slopes gently down to the water.Exhibition History
[None known at this time.]
Provenance

Robert L. and Barbara Bloch, March 2022;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2022.

Published References

Société des Aqua-Fortistes: Eaux-Fortes Modernes, Oeuvres Inédites et Originales (Paris: Cadart et Luquet, 1865), 3:173, (repro.), as Environs de Rix (Ain).

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Etching and Etchers (London: MacMillan, 1868), 223, (repro.), as Environs de Rix.

Possibly L’eau-forte depuis dix ans (Paris: Cadart, 1873).

Herbert H. Jennings, “Adolphe Appian,” Print Collector’s Quarterly 12, no. 1 (February 1925): cat. no. 11, p. 114, as Environs de Rix (Ain).

Atherton Curtis and Paul Prouté, Adolphe Appian: Son Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié (Paris: Paul Prouté S.A., 1968), no. 13, unpaginated, (repro.), as Envrions de Rix (Ain).

Adolphe Appian: Etchings and lithographs from the G. and A. Burton collection , exh. cat. (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1994), 4, 30, as Environs de Rix (Ain).

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