Portrait of Professor Huxley
Alphonse Legros
1891
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Chine: 29.9 × 22.7 cm (11 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 42.4 × 31.8 cm (16 3/4 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51283
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...