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Alphonse Legros
Sculptor:
Rodin, Auguste
Founder:
Unknown
(Uncertain)
Bronze, cast, with brown patina. Head and neck facing front. Wavy hair, side-whiskers, and curling beard with thick moustache. On brown marble plinth. Unsigned and no foundry mark
Bequeathed by G.J.F. Knowles
Height: 31.75 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1959) by Knowles, Guy John Fenton
19th Century, Late#
Production date:
after
AD 1882
In 1881, Rodin visited the French painter and engraver, Alphonse Legros, in London, where the latter spent most of his career. On 23 November that year, Legros agreed to sit for a portrait. The sittings took place at the studio of Gustave Natorp in Paris and the portrait was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, London, in 1882. Legros saw it there and wrote to Rodin on 6 May 1882 telling him that he found it admirable. The present bronze is one of about 10 known casts, the majority of which were produced by the founder Alexis Rudier in Paris.
Plinth
composed of
marble
( brown)
Height 12 cm
Head
composed of
bronze
Casting (process) : Bronze, cast and patinated
Accession number: M.1-1959
Primary reference Number: 13625
External ID: CAM_CCF_M_1_1959
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: M.1-1882
Accession Number: 94*
Accession Number: PD.4-1997
Accession Number: PD.124-2015
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