Studio: international art (29.1903)

The Paintings and Sculpture of Alphonse Legros

'the triumph of death—pestilence" from the sepia drawing by alphonse legros

(By permission of Messrs. Obach &f Co.)

. . father, which now figures

in the Tours gallery. It
was presented by the
artist to this collection

( ; , i ^ - . at the time when Cazin

was its conservator. The
beardless face, the com-
pact profile, the sober
modelling recall Hoi
bein's Erasmus, one of

. '<-' .. Jm ■• TySmEpkv • i the masterpieces for

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had a special devotion.
This painting attracted

;j?f ,^4J8r 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.
' , \ Champfleury, 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

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portrait of mrs. essinger from the gold point by alphonse legros / the Academie—enrolled