Description

Alphonse Legros (Dijon, 1837 – Watford, 1911)

Alphonse Legros: a woodland study, ca. 1903

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Etching

Print on laid paper published by “The Studio” in 1903 in the series “Representative Art Of Our Time”. Mounted in a white cardboard cover as published, with The Studio’s logo, title and artist’s name printed on the lower right of the front cover. Etching in perfect original condition with the top margin end glued to the white card cover.

Size of the leaf : H. 240 mm x W. 355 mm – size of the plate : H. 205 mm x W. 320 mm

The title in English should not surprise us given the British experience of this artist. Alphonse Legros, French painter, engraver, sculptor and medalist, became a naturalized British citizen. Prompted by Whistler, he moved to London in 1863 and married Frances Rosetta Hodgson in 1864. He distinguished himself as a teacher at the University College of London and marked the art of drawing in the United Kingdom at the end of the Victorian era. In 1880, he was a founding member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. He became a British citizen in 1881 and continued to create in England, especially in the field of engraving (etching, drypoint), without abandoning his links with France: in 1862, he was a founding member of the Société des aquafortistes co-founded by Alfred Cadart in Paris, with whom he would remain in contact.