Portrait of Champfleury
1875
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.8 × 16.6 cm (7 1/16 × 6 9/16 in.); Chine: 24.7 × 19.3 cm (9 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 44.9 × 31.5 cm (17 11/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104904
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...