Evening at the Window (1884): Art, History and Details

Evening at the Window (1884) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This etching is one of more than 600 that Alphonse Legros created throughout his career. He favored this technique, which allowed artists to sketch on a copper plate as if drawing on paper, for its spontaneity. Legros often worked directly on the plate, crossing off portions to be trimmed away as he went. In this image of a man staring through an open window, Legros scribbled along the upper and lower margins to give the composition a more specific focus.

Object facts

• Title: Evening at the Window
• Date: 1884
• Creator attribution: Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching and drypoint
• Collection: PR - Drypoint
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1944.516

A detail from the museum

Alphonse Legros taught for nearly two decades as a professor of fine arts at the Slade School in London and was the first to add etching to its curriculum.

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.