Pole Fisherman
Alphonse Legros
1878
Medium
Etching, drypoint and plate tone on light gray laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.3 × 21.9 cm (11 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 35.6 × 26.3 cm (14 1/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63404
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...