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Evening at the Window
Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911)
1884
- Medium
- etching and drypoint
- Classification
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This etching is one of more than 600 that Alphonse Legros created throughout his career. He favored this technique, which allowed artists to sketch on a copper plate as if drawing on paper, for its spontaneity. Legros often worked directly on the plate, crossing off portions to be trimmed away as he went. In this image of a man staring through an open window, Legros scribbled along the upper and lower margins to give the composition a more specific focus.
