Portrait of the artist
1880
Medium
Etching and drypoint; third state of four
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (42.8 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 14 1/4 × 10 1/16 in. (36.2 × 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Herman T. Radin, 1943
Accession Number
43.96
Tags
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...