Alphonse Legros, 1861

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 14.7 × 10.9 cm (5 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
plate: 16.6 × 11.7 cm (6 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)

sheet: 29.1 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of George Matthew Adams in memory of his mother, Lydia Havens Adams

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 73, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1946.4.12

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: lower right, below image, in ink: Bracquemond. [underlined]; upper right corner, in graphite: (B93); lower left corner, in graphite: A95526; lower right, in graphite: A. Legros; verso, lower center, in graphite, A95526; lower right, in graphite: HY.

Marks and Labels

recto: stamped in blue ink: George Matthew Adams (Lugt 59)

Provenance

George Matthew Adams [1878 - 1962], New York, (Lugt 59); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1946.

Associated Names

Adams, George Matthew

Exhibition History

1947: Prints and Drawings by Alphonse Legros, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947, no cat.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.

1987: Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.