Legros was a prolific printmaker throughtout his working life including of etchings, drypoints, and lithographs. His subjects included many of the same themes as his paintings as well as portraits of many of his fellow artists, both French and English, and other prominent men of his time. Malcolm Salaman, in discussing Legros as an etcher, remarked: “He published his first etchings in 1857…but the Paris public of those days seemingly had little sympathy with the high seriousness, the weirdness, the sombreness, and withal the deep humanity of Legros’s art, and nine years later he came to London. In the interval he had produced many remarkable and powerful plates. . . . In every print the personal expression is strong and vivid” (Michael Salaman, 38).
Introductory and Critical Material
- Alphonse Legros’s Landscape Etchings
- Etchings of Edgar Allen Poe’s Works by Alphonse Legros
- Two Critics on Legros’s Etchings
Religious Subjects
- Paysannes des environs de Boulogne (Peasant Women of Boulogne)
- La Communion dans l’eglise St.-Medard [Communion in the Church of Saint Medard].
- A Baptism
- A Baptism (horizontal formaat)
- Les Chantres Espagnols (The Spanish Cantors)
- La Charité (Charity)
- Job, second plate
Portraits
- Jules Dalou
- Cardinal Newman
- Frederic Leighton
- Edward John Poynter
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep
- George Frederic Watts (Etching with some drypoint in black ink on ivory paper, )
- George Frederic Watts (Etching and drypoint on ivory paper)
Landscapes
- The Canal: Morning
- The Meadow Gate
- Au Bord de l'Eau, Effet du Matin (The Water’s Edge – Morning)).
- Le Coup de Vent (A Gust of Wind)
- Le Canal: Effet du Matin (A Canal-Morning).
- Le Paysage à la Mare (Landscape at the Pond)
- La Ferme au Grand Arbre (The Farm at the Large Tree)
Literary Subjects and Legends
- The Pit and the Pendulum, second plate
- Le Vérité sur Le Cas de M. Valdemar (The Truth about the Case of M. Valdemar).
- Le Chat Noir (The Black Cat)
- La Mort et Le Bucheron (Death and the Woodcutter)
- La Légende du Bonhomme Misère: La Mort dans le Poirier (The Legend of Goodman Misery: Death in the Pear Tree)
Rural Life and Labor
- Milkmaid
- Les Pêcheurs d'écrevisses (The Fishers of Crayfish)
- The Lumber Jacks, second plate
- La Mort du Vagabond (Death of a Vagrant)
- Le Ramasseurs de Champignons (The Mushroom Pickers).
Bibliography
Salaman, Malcolm C.: The Great Painter-Etchers from Rembrandt to Whistler. London: The Studio Ltd., 1914.
Dodgson, Campbell: A catalogue of the etchings, drypoints and lithographs by Professor Alphonse Legros in the collection of Frank E. Bliss. London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1923.
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