page_title: Alphonse Legros
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Alphonse Legros / Works
context_page_description: Alphonse Legros was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later took citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching revival.
context_section_description: Later works, after Legros resigned his professorship in 1892, returned to the manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings such the series of The Triumph of Death, and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey. Pictures, drawings and etchings by Legros, went to the following galleries and museums:
  "Amende Honorable", "Dead Christ", bronzes, medals and twenty-two drawings, in the Luxembourg, Paris
  "Landscape," "Study of a Head," and portraits of Browning, Burne-Jones, Cassel, Huxley and Marshall, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kensington
  "Femmes en prière" (Tate, London)
  "The Tinker" and six other works from the lonides Collection, bequeathed to South Kensington
  "Christening", "Barricade", "The Poor at Meat", two portraits and several drawings and etchings, collection of Lord Carlisle
  "Two Priests at the Organ", "Landscape" and etchings, collection of Rev. Stopford Brooke
  "Head of a Priest", collection of Mr Vereker Hamilton
  "The Weed-burner", some sculpture and a large collection of etchings and drawings, Mr Guy Knowles
  "Psyche," collection of Mr L W Hudson
  "Snow Scene," collection of George Frederic Watts RA
  Thirty-five drawings and etchings, the Print Room, British Museum
  "Jacob's Dream" and twelve drawings of the antique, Cambridge
  "St Jerome", two studies of heads and some drawings, Manchester
  "The Pilgrimage" and "Study made before the Class" (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
  "Study of Heads," Peel Pan Museum, Salford.
  "Portrait of Cardinal With Patron Saint" (oil painting), Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University
  "Communion" (around 1876)
caption: Portrait etching of Rodin by Legros
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