Alphonse Legros

French, 1837–1911

L’angelus, 1859

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Medium: Paintings, oil on canvas
Size: 25.75 x 31.88 in. (65.4 x 81 cm.)
Markings: signed and dated A. Legros 1859 (lower right)

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Movement: Academic Art
Provenance: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London (bought from the artist 1863)
Sale: Haden estate, Christie’s, London, February 26, 1917, no. 159
Colnaghi, London (acquired at the above sale)
Francis Edward Bliss (1847-1930), England (acquired from the above, 1917)
Asa Lingard (d.1957), Cheltenham
Sale: Christie’s, Paris, September 14, 2016, no. 81
Exhibitions: Paris, Salon, 1859, no. 1894
Paris, Galerie Martinet, 1861
London, National Gallery of British Art, 1912, no. 18
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Paintings, Drawings, Etchings and Lithographs by Professor Alphonse Legros from the Collection of Frank E. Bliss, 1922, no. 306
Literature: Otto Scholderer, Letter to Henri Fantin-Latour, late 1858, reprinted in Correspondence entre Henri Fantin-Latour et Otto Scholderer, 1858-1902, Mathilde Arnoux, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, and Anne Tempelaere-Panzani, eds., Paris, 2010, p. 70 (letter 1858-5)
Charles Baudelaire, Letter to Nadar [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon], May 16, 1859, reprinted in Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude, Rosemary Lloyd, trans. and ed., Chicago, 1986, p. 131 (letter 106)
Otto Scholderer, Letter to Henri Fantin-Latour, spring 1859, reprinted in Correspondence entre Henri Fantin-Latour et Otto Scholderer, 1858-1902, Mathilde Arnoux, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, and Anne Tempelaere-Panzani, eds., Paris, 2010, p. 77 (letter 1859-2)
Zacharie Astruc, Les 14 stations du Salon - 1859, preface by George Sand, Paris, 1859 (see also Le Quart d’heure 4.10 [July 5, 1869], pp. 54-6)
Charles Baudelaire, 'Lettre à M. le Directeur de la Revue française sur le Salon de 1859,' Revue Française 17 (1859), pp. 328-9
Charles Baudelaire, 'Salon of 1859,' pp. 331-4, reprinted in Curiosités esthétiques, l’art romantique et autres oeuvres critiques, Paris, 1868, pp. 277-9
Jean Rousseau, 'Le Salon à vol d’oiseau,' Revue des beaux-arts 10 (1859), p. 230
Henri Fantin-Latour, Letter to James McNeill Whistler, [July 11, 1863], Glasgow University Library, MS Whistler F9; accessed online on December 5, 2016: http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/display/?rs=19&nameid=Legros_A&sr=0&initial=L
James McNeill Whistler, Letter to Henri Fantin-Latour, [c. January 4-February 3, 1864], Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/33/15; accessed online on December 5, 2016: http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/display/?rs=26&nameid=Legros_A&sr=0&initial=L (see also Nigel Thorp, ed., Whistler on Art: Selected Letters and Writings, Manchester, 1994, pp. 13-16, p. 174 n. 8)
René Ménard, 'Alphonse Legros,' The Portfolio, January 1875, p. 115
'M. Legros’ Etchings,' The Academy 10, July 22, 1876, p. 92
W.E. Henley, 'Alphonse Legros,' The Art Journal, October 1881, p. 294
Cosmo Monkhouse, 'Professor Legros,' The Magazine of Art, January 1882, p. 327
'Gallery And Studio: Alphonse Legros,' The Art Amateur: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Art in the Household 11, November 1884, p. 119
Charles Ricketts, 'Legros,' The Saturday Review, April 17, 1897, p. 406

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