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Alphonse Legros — Death and the Woodcutter
Alphonse Legros

Death and the Woodcutter

1881

Medieval allegory receives powerful treatment as Legros explores themes of mortality with dramatic contrast and symbolic imagery.

Medium
drypoint

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Alphonse Legros, Death and the Woodcutter, 1881

Medieval allegory receives powerful treatment as Legros explores themes of mortality with dramatic contrast and symbolic imagery.

Medium
drypoint
Year
1881
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, French, Etching, Melancholic, Historical, Death, Allegorical, Figurative, Black and White, Drypoint

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago