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A Tramp Advancing along a Lane (Un vagabond passant dans une ruelle)
A Tramp Advancing along a Lane (Un vagabond passant dans une ruelle)
A Tramp Advancing along a Lane (Un vagabond passant dans une ruelle)

A Tramp Advancing along a Lane (Un vagabond passant dans une ruelle)

Maker (French, active and died in England, 1837 - 1911)
Daten.d.
MediumEtching on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 5-15/16 x 10-13/16 in. (15.1 x 27.5 cm)
Sheet: 10-5/8 x 14-3/4 in. (27 x 37.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Meyer S. Gunther
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Object number1995.91
Status
Not on view
Description

Another 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