The Mushroom Gatherers
Alphonse Legros
c. 1900
Medium
Etching, drypoint and plate tone on light bluish-gray laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9.9 × 22.1 cm (3 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 15.5 × 26.9 cm (6 1/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46228
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...