Art, literature & history
Head of a Man
1837–1911
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Red chalk
- Dimensions
- 16 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. (42.9 x 32.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 92.13.22
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alphonse Legros. Head of a Man. Alphonse Legros; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of the artist, 1892. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Head of a Man — Alphonse Legros. 1837–1911.
Medium: Red chalk. Dimensions: 16 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. (42.9 x 32.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of the artist, 1892.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.