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Au Bord de l'Eau
LEGROS, Alphonse
Etching with subtle plate tone on wove paper. Reference: Bliss 604, only state. Signed in pencil.
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Alphonse LEGROS
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), a French-born painter, printmaker, and sculptor, spent his childhood visiting family farms and seeing the lives of peasants and the landscapes near his birthplace in Dijon. Legros' realistic depictions of rural, everyday life were highly influential and brought recognition from critics. A portrait of his father, exhibited in 1857 at the Paris Salon brought praise from the novelist and art critic Champfleury (Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson), who saw in his work a direct connection to the realism of Gustave Courbet. In 1863, his friend James McNeill Whistler encouraged him to relocate to England, where he became a central figure in the British etching revival. His tenure as a professor at the Slade School of Fine Art in London left a lasting impact on generations of printmakers.