Man Watering a Horse
Maker
Alphonse Legros
(French, active and died in England, 1837 - 1911)
Dateafter 1877
MediumEtching on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 6 1/2 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm)
Credit LineUniversity Transfer from Max Epstein Archive, Carrie B. Neely Bequest, 1940
Object number1967.116.89
Object TypePrints
On View
Not on viewAnother important Etching Revival figure, Legros immigrated to England in 1863 at the suggestion of his fellow printmaker James Whistler and never returned to France. The image of an exhausted man wandering along a country road is a subject he returned to many times, documenting the hopelessness of endangered rural society.
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Alphonse Francois
1847 (published); 1856 [where did this date come from?]
