DOI issue:
No. 281 (August 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0205
Studio- Talk
"TOMB OF A MARABOUT, ALGERIA" BY VV. I.EGRAS
Of French extraction—his grandfather belonged and drawings of animals. About this time some
to Marseilles—Legras was brought up and educated "portraits " of horses which he executed attracted
in Holland. Early in life the young painter knew the attention of Mr. Westerman, director of the
the need of money, and in order to maintain him- Zoological Gardens, whither Legras often resorted
self while studying at the Amsterdam Academy he to sketch, and it was there that the young artist's
earned a scanty living by making enlargements liking for Oriental things took root. Thus it was
"EARLY MORNING ON THE RIVER CHELIF, ALGERIA'
BY W. LEGRAS
I85
"TOMB OF A MARABOUT, ALGERIA" BY VV. I.EGRAS
Of French extraction—his grandfather belonged and drawings of animals. About this time some
to Marseilles—Legras was brought up and educated "portraits " of horses which he executed attracted
in Holland. Early in life the young painter knew the attention of Mr. Westerman, director of the
the need of money, and in order to maintain him- Zoological Gardens, whither Legras often resorted
self while studying at the Amsterdam Academy he to sketch, and it was there that the young artist's
earned a scanty living by making enlargements liking for Oriental things took root. Thus it was
"EARLY MORNING ON THE RIVER CHELIF, ALGERIA'
BY W. LEGRAS
I85