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La Peste a Rome

Alphonse Legros

Artist, French, 1837 - 1911

Alphonse Legros

Attributed to

Medium

etching
Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

plate: 24 x 31.8 cm (9 7/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

1974.69.85
Catalogue Raisonné

Bliss 1923, no. 60, State only

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Etang de Fayelles (Bretagne)

Tancrède Abraham

1863

Eaux-fortes modernes originales et inedites

Société des Aquafortistes, Cadart et Luquet

1862

La Jouane

Tancrède Abraham

1867

Artwork history & notes

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 plate: A Legros

Wikidata ID

Q65565219

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