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Alphonse Legros — Les faiseurs de fagots
Alphonse Legros

Les faiseurs de fagots

1857

Depicts rural laborers gathering kindling with the social realist sensibility that marked Legros' early career, rendered through his characteristic precise etching technique.

Medium
etching

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Alphonse Legros, Les faiseurs de fagots, 1857

Depicts rural laborers gathering kindling with the social realist sensibility that marked Legros' early career, rendered through his characteristic precise etching technique.

Medium
etching
Year
1857
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, French, 19th Century, Etching, Labor, Working Class, Narrative, Figurative, Black and White, Romantic

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago