The Canal: Morning
c. 1877
Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in brown on light green laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.6 × 24.8 cm (6 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Plate: 17.1 × 25.5 cm (6 3/4 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.9 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35985
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...