13. Alphonse Legros
(1837-1911)
L'Entrée du Champ (The Gate)

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Legros: L'Entrée du Champ

L'Entrée du Champ (The Gate)

Etching, and drypoint, 164 x 216 mm., Bliss 296 iii/iii (?). Fine impression, printed with fairly heavy and mottled plate tone, on old laid paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Legros' landscapes, in general, are not portraits of places (like most of Cameron's, for example) but rather evocations of countryside and studies of light and shadow. There is a repetition of subject matter - a field, a tree, a stone wall, a bit of water - but enormous variation, from one print to another, of mood and composition. One has to catch on to this to appreciate them.

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