The Supper
Alphonse Legros
1861
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 12.4 × 17.2 cm (4 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 25.8 × 31.7 cm (10 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104905
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...