The Abbey Farm
Alphonse Legros
c. 1893
Medium
Etching and drypoint on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 21.6 × 28.7 cm (8 9/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 26.6 × 35.3 cm (10 1/2 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77817
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...