Landscape with Birch Trees
1878
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 43.9 × 31.1 cm (17 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Chine: 44 × 31.5 cm (17 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.); Sheet: 67.7 × 53 cm (26 11/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72306
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...