Study of an Old Man (Etude de vieillard)
Alphonse Legros
1826 to 1850
Medium
etching
Dimensions
plate: 42.3 x 32.5 cm (16 5/8 x 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 50.1 x 36 cm (19 3/4 x 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5353
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...