Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden
Medium
Mezzotint; printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in. (25 × 17.7 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (37.4 × 27 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3573
Tags
About the Artist
Alphonse Legros|Sir Francis Seymour Haden · 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...