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The Abbey Farm (La Ferme de l'abbaye)

c. 1893

Alphonse Legros

(French, 1837–1911)
Culture
France, 19th-20th century
Medium
etchingand drypoint
Credit Line
Gift of Ralph King 1920.565
Catalogue raisonné
Bliss 503
State
VII/IX
Public Domain
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Not on view
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A prolific etcher, Legros played an active role in the French etching revival of the 1860s. Humble, rural landscapes peopled by farmhands and peasants were the subjects of many of his works. After forging a friendship with James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Legros left Paris and moved to London, where he became naturalized in 1880. In Legros’s work, French and English sensibilities merged. In The Abbey Farm, the softness of the rain and the stillness of the abbey farm are accentuated by the delicacy of Legros’s etched lines.
A horizontally oriented etching and drypoint in black ink on off-white paper depicts a figure stooping over wood in the foreground and thatched houses before stone abbey ruins behind them. These structures and the dense grove of trees to their right are rendered with precise, overlaid cross-hatching. In the sky, dark clouds and long diagonal lines are etched into the upper half. A signature is visible at the bottom right.

The Abbey Farm (La Ferme de l'abbaye)

c. 1893

Alphonse Legros

(French, 1837–1911)
France, 19th-20th century

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