Portrait of the Artist, eighth plate
Alphonse Legros
c. 1900
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.6 × 18.6 cm (10 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 24.5 × 31.7 cm (9 11/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46222
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...