The Two Heads
Alphonse Legros
1879
Medium
Drypoint and plate tone on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 29.5 × 22.3 cm (11 5/8 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 37 × 28.1 cm (14 5/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41698
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...