La Passerelle

Catalogue number: SO 0054
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1895
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 183 x 124 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 620
State: V/VI

Subject

An unusually delicate etching that suggests the imaginary or remembered Burgundian landscape which frequently appears in Legros' late work. A single figure, their face obscured by their hat, hurries towards a simple footbridge in the foreground. Smoke rises in the far distance. The treatment of the trees that frame the view from the left have an artificial sinuousness that leans towards Symbolist aesthetics and Art Nouveau.

Printing

According to Bliss only 25 impressions of both States V and VI.

History

Purchased online at auction from David Duggleby Auctioneers, Scarborough, on 5 June 2025.