Le manège

Le manège

Item Information

Title:
Le manège
Description:
The horse-gin is turned by a horse with white hair; the pulley sheltered by a sort of pent-roof connecting with a stone-edged well, near which three monks stand; one fills a watering-pot that the other holds; the third reads. Before the work which continues the house under the pent-roof to the upper right corner, and before the signature "A. Legros" in the lower left corner.
Artist:
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911
Date:
[ca. 1854–1911]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Mills
Horses
Monks
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 27 x 37 cm
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné number: 75, I.
Notes (acquisition):
Frank E. Bliss Collection of the works of Alphonse Legros, Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, 1943
Notes (date):
Date from bulk dates of collection.
Notes (citation):
Catalogue raisonné cited in this record: Bliss, Frank E., "A catalogue of the etchings, drypoints and lithographs, by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) in the collection of Frank E. Bliss." (London: Printed for private circulation, 1923).
Catalogue raisonné numbers derived by Bliss from: Poulet-Malassis, Thibaudeau, "Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de M. Alphonse Legros." (Paris: J. Bauer, 1877)
Notes (object):
First state of six. Very rare.
Identifier:
07_09_000208
Barcode:
36666003280662