International studio (20.1903)

"THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH—PESTILENCE" FROM THE SEPIA DRAWING BY ALPHONSE LEGROS
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PORTRAIT OF MRS. ESSINGER FROM THE GOLD TOIKT HY ALPHONSE LEGROS
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father, which now figures
in the Tours gallery. It
was presented by the
artist to this collection
at the time when Cazin
was its conservator. The
beardless face, the com-
pact profile, the sober
modelling recall Hoi
bein's .AYTMWMAf, one of
the masterpieces for
which the young artist
had a special devotion.
This painting attracted
notice, at any rate in the
combative circles wherein
a struggle was in pro-
gress against the insolent
and despotic domination
of the degenerate re-
presentatives of the
academic doctrine.
Champdeury, Duranty,
and Baudelaire who, each
in his own fashion, was
engaged in " pushing"
those artists known at the
time as "realists"—which
meant, in short, all those,
come whence they might,
who were opposed to the
torpor in the routine of
the Academie—enrolled