Edge of a Wood
Alphonse Legros
c. 1860
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 31.8 × 24.5 cm (12 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35.4 × 29.6 cm (13 15/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45552
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...