Portrait of a Woman
Alphonse Legros
1875
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 53.4 x 43.8 cm (21 x 17 1/4 in.) framed: 62.9 x 53.7 x 4.4 cm (24 3/4 x 21 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of George Matthew Adams
Accession Number
1963.1.2
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...