1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Job, 1st plate is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a tired, bare-chested man sitting on a low wall. He’s wrapped in a rough cloth around his waist, with one leg bent and the other foot resting on the ground. Behind him, a stack of wooden crates leans against a woven fence, and a jug sits on the wall beside him. The artist used fine lines to show the man’s worn muscles and the texture of the cloth. The crates and fence look simple but are drawn with careful detail. Look up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how artists create deep, precise lines like these.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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