The Banks of the Liane
Alphonse Legros
c. 1880
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 15.1 × 19.9 cm (6 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 18.5 × 22.6 cm (7 5/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51286
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...