The Truth in the Case of Mr. Waldemar
Alphonse Legros
1861
Medium
Etching and plate tone on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 27.3 × 37.8 cm (10 3/4 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 38.8 cm (11 3/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104909
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...