Head of a Man

1837–1911

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk on light buff paper
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (29.9 x 23.5 cm)
Collection no.: 92.13.23
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 on light buff paper. Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (29.9 x 23.5 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.

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