1874
graphite
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Head of a Man (Possible Portrait of Professor E.D. Adams) is a 1874 graphite by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a man’s face in profile, turned slightly toward us. His beard and mustache are thick, drawn with quick, dark lines. The background is a plain orange-pink color, and the artist used light shading to show his wrinkles and the shape of his head. The loose, sketchy lines make the face feel alive, like it was drawn fast. The artist mixed chalk and crayon to add shadows and highlights. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how artists build up texture with lines.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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