The Canal: Morning
Alphonse Legros
c. 1877
Medium
Etching and drypoint on light gray laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 17 × 25.6 cm (6 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 24.8 × 36.8 cm (9 13/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63406
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...