Le Coup de Vent

(A Gust of Wind)

Alphonse Legros

Etching in black ink with plate tone on ivory paper; 21 x 17¾ inches (53.2 x 44.9 cm) – plate mark.

Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession no. 1943.3.5392.

There are three plates of this particular etching. It features a landscape with path leading through a hedge and with trees at the left. A gust of wind has picked up and blown leaves. Legros has again used plate tone effectively to augment his depiction of the gust of wind to the upper right. — Dennis T. Lanigan

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