Artist: Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Etcher, lithographer and painter of landscape, genre, and historical subjects and medallist. In 1876 became a Slade Professor at University College London, and a founder member of the Royal Society of Painter Etcher and Engravers.
Title: Le petit hangar (The little shed).
Titled, Dated, and Signed in plate: Signed in pencil by an unidentified hand l.l.
Dimensions: Image 5 3/8" x 5 1/8". Sheet 10 3/4" x 7 1/8".
Date: 1855-1911.
Materials and Techniques: Etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Torn from a book. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Campbell Dodgson. A Catalogue of the Etchings, Drypoints, and Lithographs, by Alphonse Legros (1837-1891) in the Collection of Frank E. Bliss. 1923. p 147. no. 614, 30 impressions.
Part of: Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1904. p 330 [illustration from: Roger Marx. L'Exposition Alfonce Legros].
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum 2019,7015.305.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: French School XIX C. British School XIX C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia and the catalog entry of a similar item from the British Museum collection.
- The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and University College, London.