Head of a Girl
Alphonse Legros
1837–1911
Medium
Graphite on white paper
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 11 9/16 in. (39.3 x 29.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the artist, 1892
Accession Number
92.13.29
Tags
FacesHeadsGirlsPortraits
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...