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Bords du ruisseau à Rossillon (Ain) [Edge of a Stream in Rossillon]
Bords du ruisseau à Rossillon (Ain) [Edge of a Stream in Rossillon]

Bords du ruisseau à Rossillon (Ain) [Edge of a Stream in Rossillon]

Primary (Lyon, France, 1818–1898)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1867
MediumEtching
DimensionsAdditional Dimension: 5 3/8 × 9 in. (13.6 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (31.8 × 48.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.1542
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.1542
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Label Text
In this print, Appian achieves a silvery, cold light that conveys a somber day. An overcast sky, vacant of birds or discernible clouds, bears down on a foreground rendered all the more claustrophobic by the mirror-like reflection in the pond of the tangled trees along the banks.
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