“La Ferme au Grand Arbres (The Farm at the Large Tree)” by Alphonse Legros

[Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Alphonse Legros —> Etchings —> Next]

La Ferme au Grand Arbre

(The Farm at the Large Tree)

Alphonse Legros

Etching, drypoint and ? aquatint in black ink on ivory paper; 125/8 x 101/8 inches (32.0 x 25.7 cm) – plate mark.

Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession no. 1946.4.8.

This etching exists in five states but impressions of the first four states are very rare. In this etching Legros has again incorporated farm buildings in the background but the large tree in the foreground to the right is the predominant focus. Much more than usual this etching is very densely hatched, particularly in the tree and vegetation in the foreground and in the farmhouse.

[Click on image to enlarge it.]

This is another of the etchings which Colvin signalled out for praise: “There is a larger and later plate, with another such cottage, deserted not of life but of joy, standing on higher ground against the twilight, and with a gable of it reflected in a pool of dead water, two bare tree-trunks, crossing each other in the foreground on the right” (143). — Dennis T. Lanigan

Bibliography

Colvin, Sidney. ”The Etchings of Alphonse Legros.” The Portfolio I (1870): 140-43.

Last modified 25 November 2022