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Ad Code: 3
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Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in profile, in a white shirt and black coat
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Alphonse Legros ( May 8, 1837 - December 8, 1911)
A painter, etcher and sculptor, he was born in Dijon. His father was an accountant, and came from the neighboring village of Véronnes. Young Legros frequently visited the farms of his relatives, and the peasants and landscapes of that part of France are the subjects of many of his pictures and etchings. He was sent to the art school at Dijon with a view to qualifying for a trade, and was apprenticed to Maître Nicolardo, h (showing 500 of 4689 characters). |
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