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 playing around it. The fountain has a grotesque mask on it. The artist used etching and drypoint to create this image, which is a technique that involves scratching a design into a metal plate, and it's interesting because it allows for a lot of detail and texture, like the intricate carvings on the fountain. To learn more, look up the technique: etching, drypoint.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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