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The image features an aerial view showing an expansive landscape with a high horizon, a cityscape in the distance with a spire, tall bare trees in the center, a field of tree stumps and logs in the foreground, and figures walking along a pathway. The composition uses fine lines in an etching technique to depict the scene in black against an off-white background.
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The image features an aerial view showing an expansive landscape with a high horizon, a cityscape in the distance with a spire, tall bare trees in the center, a field of tree stumps and logs in the foreground, and figures walking along a pathway. The composition uses fine lines in an etching technique to depict the scene in black against an off-white background.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Avenue de Boulogne

Maxime Lalanne

Date
1871
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 12.6 × 21.3 cm (4 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.) plate: 16 × 24 cm (6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.2 × 33.1 cm (9 15/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2021.113.24
Credit line
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • Landscape
  • Tree
  • Figures
Provenance

James and Carol Goodfriend, New York; gift to NGA, 2021.

Inscription

in plate lower left: Lalanne; in graphite by later hands lower left: Avenue de Boulogne; bottom right circled: 5; V. 75 i/ii; verso lower left: B. 76

NGA object ID 224044. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.