1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Fountain: Grotesque, Children and Basin (Une fountaine: Masque, enfants et bassin) is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, depicting Fountain, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a fountain with children and a basin. It's an etching, which is a technique where the artist scratches a design into a metal plate. The artist used this technique to create many details in the scene, like the textures of the stone and the water, and it's interesting to see how the etching brings out the contrast between light and dark areas. You can learn more about this technique by looking into etching.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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