Beggar with Crutches
Alphonse Legros
1881
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 22.5 × 17 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 34.5 × 28.9 cm (13 5/8 × 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46207
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...