Alphonse Legros - The Abandoned Village - Etching And Drypoint

Alphonse LEGROS (Dijon, 1837 - Watford, 1911)
The Abandoned Village
Etching and drypoint on watermarked laid paper (coat of arms with fleur-de-lys surmounted by a crown above the initials GR)
11.2x20 cm (subject) / 14.5x24 cm (sheet) / 22,6x31,4 cm (frame)
Signed lower right in the margin "A. Legros"
References: Bliss n°347, IFF n°199
Some foxing, curled paper
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During the exhibition in June 1900 of Alphonse Legros' prints at the Musée du Luxembourg, a proof of The Abandoned Village was presented under n°87 and described by Léonce Bénédite in the catalogue as follows: "On the banks of a river flowing to the right, abandoned stubble among pollarded willows and, further away, a ruined castle" (Léonce Bénédite, Catalogue of the exhibited works of Alphonse Legros, Paris, Motteroz, 1900, p. 79).