Plain
Alphonse Legros
c. 1885
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11.8 × 17.8 cm (4 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 16.5 × 23.7 cm (6 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51304
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...