The Plain Near the Lake
Alphonse Legros
c. 1900
Medium
Etching and plate tone on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.3 × 22.8 cm (5 11/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 20.5 × 29.5 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46233
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...