1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Salmon Fisher (Le pecheur du saumon) is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a quiet winter scene with three bare trees standing in a field. The branches twist sharply against a pale sky, and the ground looks frosted. In the distance, a small figure hunches near the water’s edge, maybe checking a net or line. The artist used fine, scratchy lines to show every twig and crack in the ice. This kind of drawing is called an *etching*—the lines were made by scratching into a metal plate before inking it. Look up etching to see how artists create these detailed, textured prints.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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