Adolphe Appian

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Work by Adolphe Appian is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Canada and Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK). Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Adolphe Appian • Birth Name — Jacques Barthelemy Adolphe Appian • Born — 28 August 1819 • Birthplace — Lyon, France • Died — 29 April 1898 • Place of death — Lyon, France • Field — Painting, Etching • Movement — Barbizon school

Appian was born in Lyon and changed his name to Adolphe Appian at age fifteen. At the age of fifteen Appian attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon which was an art school which specialized in training to decorate fabrics by a local silk industry. He studied under Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat. Later he opened a studio in Lyon and worked as a graphic designer. He travelled to Paris to finish his studies and after he had exhibited a painting and a charcoal drawing in the Salon of 1853 he became friends with Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny who greatly influenced his style. Appian was elected a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

In 1866, Appian's two works that he exhibited in Paris were bought by Napoleon III and by princess Mathilde. He painted at the beginning of his career atmospheric pictures in a monochromatic palette of the riverside of the Rhone and the south of France. In 1870 he changed his style to use brilliant and striking color in his paintings but he still continued to make charcoal drawings as well as small etchings of landscapes in the Barbizon style. As an etcher, he had a distinct influence on the American artist, Stephen Parrish. Appian died in Lyon on 29 April 1898.

• Illustration — Le Soir aux Martiguese, 1850 • Illustration — alt=Lone figure walking on a road next to some trees. A house in the background. A Gorge de Loup, 1863, National Gallery of Art • Illustration — Le Haut du bois des roches (Rossillon), 1870 • Illustration — The Source of the Albarine, ca. 1870 • Illustration — alt=Two fishing boats and a small rowing boat. A coastline is seen in the far background. Barque de Pecheurs, 1874, National Gallery of Art • Illustration — alt=Boats on a Venetian canal At Venice, 1878, National Gallery of Art • Illustration — A Fisherman in a Wooded Pond at Evening, 1887, National Gallery of Art • Illustration — Landscape with Orchard, by 1898