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Les Grands Arbres: Effet du Soir [Big trees; evening effect]: P.14942-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Les Grands Arbres: Effet du Soir [Big trees; evening effect]
172

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legros, Alphonse

Entities

Categories

Description

Two large pine trees in the foreground at the far left, viewed in gloom, light in the middleground from the setting sun.

Legal notes

Given by Professor Alphonse Legros, 24 May 1879

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879-05-24) by Legros, Alphonse

Dating

19th Century
Production date: circa AD 1877

Note

Drypoint and aquatint with surface tone, printed in brown ink on a heavy Japanese paper. Touched by the artist in brown ink. Second state of three. Dodgson records 8 known impressions. Signed in the margin at lower right: 'A. Legros'. One of 20 prints on mounts printed with numbers and titles and contained inside a portfolio half-bound with green cloth (spine and corners) and grey paper and with printed title: 'Eaux-fortes / par Alphonse Legros.'. Acquisition information at lower centre written in pen and ink (probably by John Charrington): 'Given by Prof. A. Legros / 24 May 1879'. The inside of the front board bears the stamp of the London-based mounter and frame-maker, Robert Guéraut who published Legros' etchings after 1863 and who also collected Legros' prints.

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Aquatint
Drypoint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14942-R
Primary reference Number: 240002
Dodgson (Legros): 172.ii
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 9 January 2020 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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