La Tour aux Pigeons

Catalogue number: SO 0081
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1870
Medium: Etching
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 170 x 75 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 313

Subject

A dilapidated pigeon tower standing amongst a picturesque grouping of agricultural buildings, this small plate nonetheless conveys some compositional echoes of Nicholas Poussin's idealised landscapes of the Roman Campagna.

History

Purchased in a lot of eleven unframed etchings by Legros, online from Semley Auctioneers in Shaftsbury, Dorset on 8th November 2025.