Gateway to the Abbey of St Martin of Auchi in Aumale (France)

Louis Marie Jean Baptiste Athalin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis Jean Marie Atthalin was a French officer in the Napoleonic Wars, a Knight of the Legion d'Honneur and Grand Cross, and printmaker. This print is part of a series of lithographs produced in the 1820s in collaboration with Taylor and Nodier's 'Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France'.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art