The Refectory
Alphonse Legros
1862
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.2 × 31.2 cm (8 3/8 × 12 5/16 in.); Plate: 24 × 32.8 cm (9 1/2 × 12 15/16 in.); Sheet: 34.8 × 53.7 cm (13 3/4 × 21 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
116597
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...