Landscape along a Riverbank with a Figure
Alphonse Legros
1905
Medium
brown wash with pen and brown ink over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 13.8 × 31 cm (5 7/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection
Accession Number
2018.26.16
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...