The LumberJacks, second plate
c. 1877
Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in brown on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 40.7 × 65.8 cm (16 1/16 × 25 15/16 in.); Plate: 41.8 × 67 cm (16 1/2 × 26 7/16 in.); Sheet: 48.4 × 71.2 cm (19 1/16 × 28 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111909
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...