Mendients Anglais
- Catalogue number
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SO 0069
- Artist
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Alphonse Legros
- Printer
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Cadart
- Date
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1875
- Medium
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Etching and drypoint
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
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145 x 160 mm
- Catalogues
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Malassis & Thibaudeau 85, Bliss 85
- State
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VIII/VIII
Subject
A group of English beggars plead their poverty on the edge of an urban building site. The group of five figures represents a cross-section of working-class individuals differentiated by age, gender and ethnicity.
Signed in the plate. Inscription under the image: ‘A. Legros del et sc., MENDIENTS ANGLAIS, A. Cadart, Imp.56 Bard Haussmann, Paris.’
History
Purchased online at auction in a lot of five etchings by Legros, from Chiswick Auctions, London on 16 September 2025.
