Haunted House
Alphonse Legros
c. 1890
Medium
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 22.6 × 17.3 cm (8 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 25.8 cm (8 3/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77756
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...