1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Milkmaid of Boulogne is a 1874 ink by Alphonse Legros, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a woman in a long dress and hood, guiding a cow by a rope. The cow is kneeling, and she holds a stick in her other hand. The background has a few trees and a rough fence, drawn with quick, loose lines. The artist used lots of thin, crisscrossed lines to build up shadows and shapes—this is called *cross-hatching*. It gives the drawing texture without heavy shading. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists create depth with just ink.
Alphonse Legros (French pronunciation: ; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.
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