Portrait of the Artist
Alphonse Legros
1880
Medium
Etching and drypoint on light blue laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 36 × 25.5 cm (14 3/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 33.7 cm (17 11/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72012
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...