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Alphonse Legros French and British
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This elderly man, seated and facing left, wears the traditional Spanish cloak known as a Pañosa. The etching appears in "The Portfolio," in 1872, a publication edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894) that actively promoted printmaking.
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Title: Vieil espagnol, from "The Portfolio"
Series/Portfolio: The Portfolio, vol. 3, edited by P. G. Hamerton
Artist:
Alphonse Legros (French, Dijon 1837–1911 Watford, Hertfordshire)
Date: 1872
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 9 5/16 in. (30.2 × 23.6 cm)
Plate: 10 7/8 × 7 3/16 in. (27.6 × 18.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Edith P. Blase, 1944
Accession Number: 44.91.840
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