Peasant Woman in Church, Boulogne
Datec. 1873
Artist
Alphonse Legros
(French and British etcher, painter, and sculptor, 1837–1911)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 9 × 5 7/8 in. (22.9 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.8 cm)
sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940
Object number1940-11.256
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextLegros was recognized for a certain gravity in his many prints of rural French people. The pensive, delicately rendered faces of these women contrast with their robust, labor-hardened hands.
