The Faggot-Makers
Alphonse Legros
c. 1878
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 38.5 × 27.5 cm (15 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 31.4 cm (17 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46195
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...