Self-Portrait
Alphonse Legros|Alphonse Legros
1837–1911
Medium
Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. (21 x 16.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.504
Tags
MenSelf-portraits
About the Artist
Alphonse Legros|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...