The Hamlet by the Lake
Alphonse Legros
c. 1903
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11.9 × 16.1 cm (4 11/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 18.1 × 20.4 cm (7 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46235
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...