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Alphonse Legros — The Sleeping Beggar
Alphonse Legros

The Sleeping Beggar

1857

Social realism emerges through the artist's compassionate portrayal of poverty, executed with the kind of technical precision that made Legros a respected teacher of etching.

Medium
etching

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Alphonse Legros, The Sleeping Beggar, 1857

Social realism emerges through the artist's compassionate portrayal of poverty, executed with the kind of technical precision that made Legros a respected teacher of etching.

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

Related themes

Monochrome, French, 19th Century, Etching, Beggar, Melancholic, Social Commentary, Classical Technique, Portrait, Realism, Figurative, Black and White

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago