Morning on the River
Alphonse Legros
c. 1900
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 17.6 × 18 cm (6 15/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 21 × 22.9 cm (8 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51292
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...