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Sir Frederick Leighton

Sir Frederick Leighton, 1879

  • Alphonse Legros, English, 1837-1911

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 15 1/8 × 10 inches (38.4 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 18 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (47.6 × 33.3 cm)

Gift of Charles E. Feinberg

49.493

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed, in brown ink, lower right: A. Legros

Charles E. Feinberg

1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Alphonse Legros, Sir Frederick Leighton, 1879, etching and drypoint printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Charles E. Feinberg, 49.493.

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