1874
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Centaur Woman is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a half-human, half-horse figure resting on a rock. The centaur’s top half is a woman with flowing hair, while the bottom half is a horse’s body. Around them, trees and bushes fill the background, and the whole scene looks like a quiet forest. The artist used lots of tiny parallel lines to build up shadows and textures—this is called *cross-hatching*. It gives the drawing a soft, almost sketchy feel. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how this technique works in other art.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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