The Abandoned Village
Alphonse Legros
c. 1885
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11.4 × 20.2 cm (4 1/2 × 8 in.); Sheet: 14.7 × 21.7 cm (5 13/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46213
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...