“Le Coup de Vent (A Gust of Wind)” by Alphonse Legros (original) (raw)

Le Coup de Vent

(A Gust of Wind)

Alphonse Legros

Etching in black ink with plate tone on ivory paper; 21 x 17¾ inches (53.2 x 44.9 cm) – plate mark.

Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession no. 1943.3.5392.

There are three plates of this particular etching. It features a landscape with path leading through a hedge and with trees at the left. A gust of wind has picked up and blown leaves. Legros has again used plate tone effectively to augment his depiction of the gust of wind to the upper right. — Dennis T. Lanigan

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