Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alphonse Legros
1826 to 1850
Medium
lithograph in black on chine collé
Dimensions
image: 33 x 22.9 cm (13 x 9 in.) sheet: 44.4 x 31.5 cm (17 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.40
About the Artist
Alphonse Legros · 1837–1911
Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) was born in Dijon, France, and trained in Paris at the drawing school of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose unconventional teaching method — which emphasised memory drawing and acute observation over academic convention — would leave a lasting mark on Legros's practice. At Lecoq's school he formed friendships with Jules Dalou and Auguste Rodin that endured throughout hi...