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Alphonse Legros

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Etched portrait of an elderly bearded man seated in a buttoned jacket, hands resting on his knees.

Old man seated (Vieillard assis)

1837

Brown wash drawing of flat countryside with gnarled trees, two figures with a rake in the foreground, and a distant village.

View over Flat Country

1906

Pen and brown wash drawing of an elderly bearded man in a robe, seated and leaning forward, hands resting on a round object.

Beggar with Crutches

1837

Etching of cloaked men with long staves descending church steps, a kneeling figure and a praying man in the foreground.

Procession Leaving a Church (La sortie de la procession)

1837

Etching of a laborer asleep with his head on his arms at a wooden table, with a stool and glass beside him.

Siesta of a Laborer (Sieste d'un ouvrier)

late 19th century

Etching of a figure fishing at a riverbank beside a large tree, with a row of trees and cloudy sky across the water.

Salmon Fisher (Le pecheur de saumon)

1837

Etching of a church choir with a cellist, singers at a lectern, and an elderly standing figure beside a carved column.

Choir in a Spanish Church (Le choeur d'une eglise espagnole)

1860

Etching of a wooden shed beside tall pine trees and a low fence, with crosshatched shading and a light open sky.

Shed (Le hangar)

1837

Etched portrait of a bearded man turned over his shoulder, set against horizontal hatched lines, signed by Alphonse Legros.

Sir E.J. Poynter, P.R.A.

1877

Etching of two women bathing beside tall trees in a dark wooded landscape, one seated and one standing.

Bathers (Les baigneuses)

1837

Etching of a cloaked woman sitting beside an overturned wooden cart with a broken wheel on rough ground.

Broken Cart (La charrette brisee)

1837

Etching of a milkmaid in a cloak and headscarf leading a donkey loaded with milk churns along a rural road.

Milkmaid of Boulogne, 1st plate (Laitiere a Boulogne)

1837

Etching of a bearded old man seated outdoors, head resting on his hand, with a walking stick and hat beside him.

Day-dream (Le reveur)

1837

Etching of tall trees with a small seated woman reading at their base, with an open landscape and distant hills to the right.

Woman Reading: Lesson under the Trees (La liseuse: La lecture sous les arbres)

1837

Etching of a seated traveler in a wide hat resting by a path, with fields, trees and distant hills under a pale sky.

Traveler Resting (Repos du voyageur)

1837

Etching of three tall trees on a riverbank, with a figure bending over the water at lower right and distant hills.

Banks of the Liane (Les bords de la Liane)

1837

Etching of a bowed, bearded old man seated on grass with his head in his hand, shaded by dense hatching.

Job, 2nd plate

1837

Etching of a tree trunk and grassy brook bank, with dense cross-hatched shading in brown ink on cream paper.

Edge of a Brook (Bord de ruisseau)

1837

Etching of a crumbling village with sagging thatched roofs and overgrown bushes along a reflective riverbank.

Abandoned Village (Le village abondonne)

1837

Etching of trees and undergrowth along a riverbank, rendered in loose hatched lines against a pale sky.

Along the River (Sur la riviere)

1837

Etching of an elderly man seated with his head bowed, hand on chin, leaning on a walking stick against a wooden wall.

Thinker (Le penseur)

1837

Etching of a hillside farm behind tall trees, with two saddled donkeys standing on a path in the foreground.

Farm on the Hillside (La ferme sur le coteau)

1837

Etched landscape of trees and a field under dark, hatched storm clouds with a bright patch of light in the sky.

Landscape with Storm (Paysage d'orage)

1837

Etching of a horse-drawn hay cart on a rural path, with two figures pushing it past a tree and a distant building.

Returning with the Hay (Rentrant le foin)

1890/1904

Etching of a bearded man with a hat and walking stick looking toward rolling hills and shrubs under an open sky.

Return from the Fields (Le retour des champs)

1837

Etching of a bearded man seated and leaning on a walking stick, with a distant landscape at the right edge.

Sinbad the Sailor (Sinbad le marin)

1837

Etching of a ruined chateau on a grassy hill with a small shed and tree, rendered in dense hatched lines.

Ruins of a Chateau (Les ruines du chateau)

1837

Etching of a bent elderly woman in a hood beside a group of girls in bonnets, set among large tree trunks.

Orphans (Les orphelins (?))

1837

Etching of two women harvesters bent against slanting rain beneath windblown trees, one carrying a rake.

Harvesters Surprised by the Storm (Moissonneuses surprises par l'orage)

1837

Etching of a bearded man bent over a cluttered desk with inkwell, quill and books, beside a lattice window.

Geographer (Le geographe)

1837

Etching of two bearded men at a stone doorway with a ladder and a figure in a head covering behind them.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul at the Door of Bonhomme Misere (Saint Pierre et Saint Paula la port du Bonhomme Misere)

1837

Etching of two thatched cottage roofs, a wheelbarrow on a dirt path, trees and distant fields under a pale sky.

Wheelwright's home (La maison du charron)

1893