Art, literature & history
Reading of the Office of the Day (La lecture de l'office)
1868
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint
- Collection no.
- 1948.6.23
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alphonse Legros. Reading of the Office of the Day (La lecture de l'office). Alphonse Legros; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alphonse_Legros,_Reading_of_the_Office_of_the_Day_(La_lecture_de_l%27office),_1868,_NGA_34619.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Reading of the Office of the Day (La lecture de l'office) — Alphonse Legros. 1868.
Medium: drypoint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1948.6.23. Gift of George Matthew Adams in memory of his mother, Lydia Havens Adams.
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.