La Ferme de Brieux (Effect d'orage) (Farm at Brieux in a Storm)
Alphonse Legros
1826 to 1850
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.9 x 33.3 cm (7 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.) sheet: 24.8 x 37.5 cm (9 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2006.57.18
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...