Rentrant le Foin

Catalogue number: SO 0055
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1884
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 240 x 120 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 446
State: I/I

Subject

The title translates as 'Bringing home the Hay’. Two male peasants assist their horse to pull a loaded cart up a steep hill.

Printing

According to Bliss, only six impressions of this plate were taken.

History

Gallery labels:

1. Taylor & Brown, Fine Art Dealers, 94 George Street, Edinburgh. Handwritten ‘ “Rendrant le Foin [sic _NS].” 446 only state (from Artist's private Collection), original etching by A. Legros' In pencil ‘Browne 1’

2. John Mathison & Co. Printsellers :: Artist's Colourmen :: Picture Framemakers :: Restorers and Gilders, 20 Frederick Street Edinburgh, 2, telephone no. 223 6798

Purchased online at auction from Chiswick Auctions, London on 24th April 2025. Conserved by Christina Andrews in 2026