1471767

Alphonse Legros 1880 Etching, Rip van Winkle #1471767

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Alphonse Legros 1880 Etching, Rip van Winkle #1471767
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Artist: Alphonse Legros, French born British (1837 - 1911)


Title: Rip van Winkle

Year: 1880

Medium: Etching, Signed in Pencil

Size: 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20 cm)

Frame: 21 x 17 inches (53.5 x 43 cm)





British etcher, painter, sculptor and teacher of French birth. He is said to have been apprenticed at the age of 11 to a sign-painter, at which time he may also have attended classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. He was employed as assistant on a decorative scheme in Lyon Cathedral before moving in 1851 to Paris, where he worked initially for the theatre decorator C. A. Cambon (1802?75). He soon became a pupil of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose methodical instruction and liberality in fostering individual talent proved of lasting benefit to Legros. In 1855 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, attending irregularly until 1857. During this period Legros had a taste for early Netherlandish art and for French Romanticism, which was later superseded by his admiration for Claude, Poussin and Michelangelo. However, his devotion to Holbein proved constant and was apparent as early as his first Salon painting, Portrait of the Artist's Father (1857; Tours, Mus. B.-A.)



Legros began etching in 1855; he preferred this medium and produced over 600 plates. Many of his early works are deliberately rough in execution, yet Legros already valued the medium sufficiently to encourage the publisher Alphonse Cadart to establish the ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1880</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:21</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:17</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Alphonse Legros 1880 Etching, Rip van Winkle</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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