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Old Man Gathering Fodder (L’Homme au Fourrage)

Alphonse Legros

Artwork Details

Old Man Gathering Fodder (L’Homme au Fourrage)
circa 1880
Alphonse Legros
etching and drypoint on paper
5 1/4 in. x 6 1/2 in. ( 13.3 cm x 16.5 cm )
Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke
1949/1.89

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Looking to Old Masters such as Bruegal, Rembrandt, and Ostade, Romantic-Realist printmakers were fascinated with characters on the margins of society, like beggers, tramps, woodcutters, and faggot gatherers. Legros made more than seven hundred prints of such rural workers, all of which were made after the Frenchman had settled in England in 1863, and all of which were done entirely from memory.

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