Portrait of G. F. Watts, R. A., second plate
Alphonse Legros
c. 1894
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.4 × 20 cm (10 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 24 cm (14 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46219
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...