Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden
Medium
Mezzotint; printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in. (25 × 17.7 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (37.4 × 27 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3573
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Alphonse Legros|Sir Francis Seymour Haden · 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...