id:			101903
accession number:	1920.565
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565
updated:		2023-01-19 15:23:15.708000

The Abbey Farm (La Ferme de l'abbaye), c. 1893. Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911). Etchingand drypoint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King 1920.565

title:				The Abbey Farm (La Ferme de l'abbaye)
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creation date:			c. 1893
creation date earliest:		1888
creation date latest:		1898
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creditline:			Gift of Ralph King
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culture:	France, 19th-20th century
technique:	etchingand drypoint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Bliss 503

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CREATORS

* Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911)  - artist

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state of the work:	VII/IX
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Lepère, Legros, and Buhot
	opening date:   1984-05-01T04:00:00
	<i>Lepère, Legros, and Buhot</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-September 23, 1984).

	title:		Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century
	opening date:   2004-08-15T00:00:00
	<i>Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century".  No exhibition catalogue.

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PROVENANCE

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A prolific etcher, Legros played an active role in the French etching revival of the 1860s. Humble, rural landscapes peopled by farmhands and peasants were the subjects of many of his works. After forging a friendship with James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Legros left Paris and moved to London, where he became naturalized in 1880. In Legros’s work, French and English sensibilities merged. In <em>The Abbey Farm</em>, the softness of the rain and the stillness of the abbey farm are accentuated by the delicacy of Legros’s etched lines.
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