Le Mendient

Catalogue number: SO 0075
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1881
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 174 x 226 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 236
State: II/?

Subject

A beggar of similar physiognomy to those depicted in several other works by Legros, including SO 0069. A small caricature included at the bottom of the plate beneath the main pictorial space. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil bottom right.

History

Impression deaccessioned from Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, US (accession number 61:32) circa 2009. Purchased at auction in a lot of five etchings by Legros, from Chiswick Auctions, London on 16 September 2025.