Seated Woman Reading (Study for "Le Pélerinage")
Alphonse Legros
1871
Medium
Graphite on light gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 9 5/16 in. (31 × 23.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harvey Salzman, 2020
Accession Number
2022.25.15
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ChairsReadingWomen
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...