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Le manège, 19th century

  • Alphonse Legros, English, 1837-1911

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 10 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (26.7 × 36.5 cm) Sheet: 14 1/8 × 20 5/8 inches (35.9 × 52.4 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Newman

F80.239

Signed, in plate, lower left: A. Legros.

Watermark, center of image: [heraldic device with initials]

Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Newman

1980-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Malassis, A. P. and Thibaudeau, A. W. Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de M. Alphonse Legros. Paris, 1877, no. 75.

Alphonse Legros, Le manège, 19th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Newman, F80.239.