Job, second plate
Alphonse Legros
1884
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11.6 × 9.2 cm (4 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Sheet: 16 × 12.4 cm (6 5/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51279
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...