Maxime Lalanne
Frontispiece designed for the book “Alexandre Piedagnel, Un Bouquiniste Parisien (Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, 1878)”
1877
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Maxime Lalanne
Frontispiece designed for the book “Alexandre Piedagnel, Un Bouquiniste Parisien (Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, 1878)”
1877
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 145 x 106 mm. (5 11/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Image: 105 x 66 mm. (4 1/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.18040
Printed in red-brown ink. Second, and final, state of this print with inscriptions on open book was published as frontispiece for the the book "Alexandre Piedagnel, Un Bouquiniste Parisien (Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, 1878)"
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Inscribed: Signed and dated in plate: lower left "Maxime Lalanne"; lower right "1878." Inscribed in pencil: verso, in Lucas' hand "122. / Frontispiece"
Markings: Watermark: Whatman
