Artist Alphonse Legros, English, 1837-1911
Title
  • The Beggar
Date 1881
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 8 7/8 × 6 7/8 inches (22.5 × 17.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (33.7 × 26 cm)
Credit Line Bequest of Hal H. Smith
Accession Number 45.291
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed and dated, in plate, upper left of image: A. Legros | 1881
Signed, in pencil, lower right: A. Legros
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, in another hand, center lower edge: original D.P. Etching by Legros very rare
Hal H. Smith;
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)