Portrait of Edward D. Adams
Medium
Drypoint and etching; second state of three
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 11/16 in. (30.2 × 22 cm) Plate: 9 15/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25.2 × 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921
Accession Number
21.33.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Alphonse Legros|Edward Dean Adams · 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...