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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Etching of a dim interior with women and a child beside overturned furniture, smoke filling the room, a figure carrying an in

The Fire, 2nd plate (L'incendie)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a field hospital with wounded men on stretchers, a grieving seated figure, and hooded attendants in an archway.

Field Hospital (L'ambulance)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a wooded bank above still water, with trees silhouetted against hatched sky and distant hills.

Sunset (Le soir (Coucher de soleil))

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly woman in a shawl and white cap, seated with folded hands against dense crosshatched shading.

Old Woman Seated (La vieille femme assise)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly peasant woman in a bonnet holding a wicker basket beside a shadowed stone wall.

Peasant Woman of Boulogne (Paysanne des environs de Boulogne dite La femme au panier)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of two elderly peasant women in headscarves and cloaks seated beneath tall trees, with a distant house visible.

Peasants (Paysannes)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a cloaked traveler with a walking stick sheltering against a tree in diagonal rain.

Traveler taking Shelter (Le voyageur a l'abri)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of seated beggars, including an old bearded man, women and a child, beside a wooden fence and stone arch.

English Beggars (Les mendiants anglais)

Alphonse Legros, 1875

Etching of a kneeling shepherd with a sheep beside tall trees, a stone wall and a wooden fence in an open rural landscape.

Finding the Sheep (Le mouton retrouve)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a fisherman crouched by a tree, holding a long pole, with tall trunks and hills behind him.

Fisherman with a Hoop-net (La peche a la truble)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a horse turning a wooden well mechanism while two men work at a stone well under a timber frame.

Horse-driven Mill (Le manege)

Alphonse Legros, probably 1869

Etching of two vagabonds by a stone wall beside an overturned cart, with a flat landscape and trees behind them.

Vagabonds of Montrouge (Les vagabonds de Montrouge)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of plague victims in a city street as a religious procession with clergy, cross and banners passes by.

Plague Victims of Rome (Les pestiferes de Rome)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a church choir with singers at a carved lectern and a cellist in the foreground beside a stone column.

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

Alphonse Legros, 1860

Etching of monks seated at a long table in a vaulted refectory, with a crucifix on the wall and a standing server.

The Refectory (Le refectoire)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of candle-bearing mourners in shawls processing through a dim crypt past an iron gate and a small child.

Procession in the Sepulchre of Saint Medard(Procession dans le caveaux de St.-Medard)

Alphonse Legros, 1859

Breton Peasant (Paysan breton)

Alphonse Legros

Head of a Model (Tete de modele)

Alphonse Legros

Etched portrait of a bearded man with dark hair, turned three-quarters, wearing a high collar and jacket.

Frederic Regamey

Alphonse Legros

Brown etching of a ragged man lying dead beneath a leaning bare tree under a heavy sky.

Death of the Vagabond (La mort du vagabond)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a windblown tree and dense diagonal rain over a path winding through a hilly rural landscape.

Gust of Wind (Le coup de vent)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a lone seated man in a hat beneath large trees on a grassy slope, with rolling hills under a pale sky.

Solitude (Solitude (Paysage))

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a skeletal rider on horseback leading a frightened crowd beneath a banner, with flames and smoke behind.

The Triumph of Death: Proclamation (Le triomphe de la mort: La proclamation)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a skeletal Death on horseback with a scythe charging through a crowd of men carrying flags beneath stone arches.

The Triumph of Death: Departure (Le triomphe de la mort: Le depart)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a woman clutching a windblown tree beside a prone figure, with a lightning bolt striking under a turbulent sky.

Victims of the Lightning (Victimes de la foudre)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a rocky hillside with a large tree, two figures in the foreground, and cliffs under a pale sky.

Sunrise (Un lever de soleil)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a man bending over a stream fishing with a pole while a woman in a headscarf watches beside a tree.

Fishing for Crayfish (Les pecheurs d'ecrevisses)

Alphonse Legros

Sir Seymour Haden

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a storm with heavy diagonal rain over a riverbank of shrubs and reflective water, distant land beyond.

Storm (Un orage)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a bent peasant in a cap gathering firewood across rough hatched ground.

Fagot-gatherer (Le fagotier)

Alphonse Legros