Seated Woman Reading, study for "Le Pélerinage"
Alphonse Legros French and British
Not on view
After immigrating to London in 1863, Legros almost immediately found critical success and patronage he had lacked in Paris. This study of a cloaked woman reading from a missal is preparatory to The Pilgrimage (1871, Walker Art Gallery). After Philip Henry Rathbone (1828–1895), a prominent collector in Liverpool, purchased the work almost immediately, the artist continued with a series of major paintings of Breton women observing religious ceremonies. The first owner of this drawing was Auguste Poulet-Malassis, author of the catalogue raisonné of Legros’s etchings, published in 1877.
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