1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Farm in Winter (Une ferme en hiver) is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a bare winter landscape with jagged trees and rough, sloping hills. The lines are scratchy and uneven, like quick strokes with a pen. A lone building sits in the distance, half-hidden by the trees. The artist used two printing methods—etching and drypoint—to create deep, textured lines. This made the scene feel rough and raw, like the winter itself. Next, look up technique: drypoint to see how artists carve lines into metal plates.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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