Death of the Vagabond
1879
Medium
Etching and aquatint printed in brown on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 53.6 × 38.1 cm (21 1/8 × 15 in.); Plate: 55.4 × 39 cm (21 13/16 × 15 3/8 in.); Sheet: 69.7 × 51.6 cm (27 1/2 × 20 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43279
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...