The Black Cat
Alphonse Legros
1862
Medium
Etching and plate tone on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 27.4 × 37.1 cm (10 13/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 52.6 cm (14 3/16 × 20 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104907
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...