Farm with Large Tree
c. 1855
Medium
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.3 × 24.5 cm (12 3/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Plate: 32.4 × 25.5 cm (12 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 42.7 × 32.5 cm (16 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46192
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...