In the Marshes
1826 to 1850
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 26.7 x 49.2 cm (10 1/2 x 19 3/8 in.) support (sealed mount): 43.1 x 63 cm (16 15/16 x 24 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5533
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...