La Ferme de Brieux (Effect d'orage) (Farm at Brieux in a Storm)

Alphonse Legros

Artist, French, 1837 - 1911

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.9 x 33.3 cm (7 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 24.8 x 37.5 cm (9 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.57.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bliss 1923, no. 484, State iii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Craddock & Barnard, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased 1975; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1923

  • A Catalogue of the Etchings, Drypoints and Lithographs by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) In the Collection of Frank E. Bliss. Preface by Campbell Dodgson. London: Privately printed, 1923.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Legros; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 484 III La Ferme de Brieux (Effet d'orage) Drypoint (40 proofs thus)

Wikidata ID

Q76335532


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