Head of a Man (Possible Portrait of Professor E.D. Adams)
1826 to 1850
Medium
black and red chalk with yellow-green crayon, heightened with white, over graphite on orange-pink prepared paper
Dimensions
overall: 28.4 x 19.5 cm (11 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of George Matthew Adams in memory of his mother, Lydia Havens Adams
Accession Number
1949.13.5
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...