Craibe Angus
1877/1880
Medium
drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of E. Gerald Lamboley)
Accession Number
2015.143.1366
Art Historical Context
**Craibe Angus** is a striking drypoint etching by Alphonse Legros created between 1877 and 1880. Legros, a French-born artist who spent much of his career in, was a master printmaker renowned for his realistic portrayals infused with a subtle psychological depth. This work, housed in the National Gallery of's Corcoran CollectionGift of E. Gerald Lamboley), exemplifies his skill during a period when he was professor at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, influencing a generation of British artists. Drypoint, the medium here, involves scratching directly into a metal plate with a sharp too...
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...