Art, literature & history
The Pigeons
1905
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and sepia ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9 3/4 x 8 9/16 in. (24.77 x 21.75 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2015.143.1377
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alphonse Legros. The Pigeons. Alphonse Legros; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Gift of E. Gerald Lamboley, 1993). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Pigeons — Alphonse Legros. 1905.
Medium: pen and sepia ink over graphite on off-white wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 9 3/4 x 8 9/16 in. (24.77 x 21.75 cm).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.143.1377. Corcoran Collection (Gift of E. Gerald Lamboley, 1993).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.