"Port De Versailles Au Pont Du Jour" by Maxime Lalanne, Fr., (1827-1886) Drypoint on cream wove paper with

on cream wove paper with a Crown & Shield watermark

a pittoresque view of this unusual Pasadena

Broadmoor Art Academy

The bright white at right edge is a reflection from the sheen of the japan paper

"Port De Versailles Au Pont Du Jour" by Maxime Lalanne, Fr., (1827-1886) Drypoint on cream wove paper withPart of the series "Souvenirs Artistique du Siege de Paris" Etching, 1879 81, pub. by Cadart & Luce, Paris, ed. unknown, on thin cream laid paper with large margins and deckled edges, collection lalanne ink stamp lower left margin corner. A paper flaw in the sky upper left. Maxime Lalanne's landmark book A Treatise on Etching, paved the way for the French Etching Revival in the mid nineteenth century which lead to the American Etching Revival shortly