Procession in a Spanish Church
Alphonse Legros
c. 1861
Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 41.5 × 67.9 cm (16 3/8 × 26 3/4 in.); Plate: 42.2 × 68.7 cm (16 5/8 × 27 1/16 in.); Sheet: 47.8 × 74.2 cm (18 7/8 × 29 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105476
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...