Seated Woman Reading, study for "Le Pélerinage"

1871

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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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Title: Seated Woman Reading, study for "Le Pélerinage"
Artist: Alphonse Legros (French, Dijon 1837–1911 Watford, Hertfordshire)
Date: 1871
Medium: Graphite on light gray paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 3/16 × 9 5/16 in. (31 × 23.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Harvey Salzman, 2020
Object Number: 2022.25.15
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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