The Tree of Salvation
Alphonse Legros
c. 1880
Medium
Etching and drypoint on rose-cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 25.5 × 20.7 cm (10 1/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 26.8 cm (13 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46225
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...