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MAXIME LALANNE
(b Bordeaux, 27 Nov 1827; d Nogent-sur-Marne, 29 July 1886).
French etcher and draughtsman. He went to Paris after 1848 to join the studio of Jean Gigoux, and made his Salon début in 1852. He made an important contribution to the etching revival in France with his illustrated manual Traité de la gravure à l'eau-forte (1866) and with his participation in the founding in 1862 of the Société des Aquafortistes, with whom he published seven prints in their L'Eaux-fortes modernes series (1862-6). He provided drawings for the Society's journal, L'Illustration nouvelle (1868-81), and made prints after paintings by such artists as Corot and Constant Troyon for L'Artiste and the Gazette des beaux-arts. His etched book illustrations (e.g. Chez Victor Hugo, 1864), collections of prints (e.g. Souvenirs artistiques du siège de Paris, 1871) and plates for the Société des Aquafortistes (e.g. Rue des Marmousets, 1862, see 1982 exh. cat., pl. 69) display his opposition to the Second Empire which extended to dark and sombre views of the industrial and slum areas of Paris, executed with great delicacy and technical assurance. Lalanne's sketches were the subject of his second technical manual Le Fusain (1869) and served as illustrations to journals and such books as Henry Havard's topographical Hollande à vol d'oiseau (1881).
WRITINGS
Traité de la gravure à l'eau-forte (Paris, 1866, 2/1878; Eng. trans., London, 1880, 2/1926/R 1981)
Le Fusain (Paris, 1869, rev. 1874)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. G. Hamerton: Etching and Etchers (London, 1868, rev. 3/1880), iii, pp. 171-202
J. Bailly-Herzberg: L'Eau-forte de peintre au dix-neuvième siècle: La Société des Aquafortistes, 1862-1867, 2 vols (Paris, 1972) [vol. i contains entries and reproductions from L'Eaux-fortes modernes; vol. ii gives a biography, pp. 124-7]
Visions of City and Country: Prints and Photographs of Nineteenth Century France (exh. cat. by B. L. Grad and T. A. Riggs, Washington, DC, N.G.A.; Worcester, MA, A. Mus.; Chapel Hill, U. NC, Ackland A. Mus.; 1982), pp. 129-32
J. Bailly-Herzberg: Dictionnaire de l'estampe en France, 1830-1950 (Paris, 1985), pp. 175-6
LEAH KHARIBIAN
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