1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Last Rays (Les derniers rayons) is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a quiet landscape at dusk. A lone tree stands on the left, its branches dark against a pale sky. In the distance, a hill slopes down toward a faint outline of buildings or ruins, barely visible in the fading light. The artist used fine, scratchy lines to build up the texture—almost like drawing with a needle. The paper has a rough, grainy look, which makes the scene feel both delicate and a little rough around the edges. Try looking up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how these techniques work.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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