Art, literature & history
Head of a Child
1893
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on laid paper washed green
- Dimensions
- overall (approximate): 20.5 x 16.6 cm (8 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1956.14.24
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alphonse Legros. Head of a Child. 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,_Head_of_a_Child,_1893,_NGA_43667.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Head of a Child — Alphonse Legros. 1893.
Medium: graphite on laid paper washed green.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (approximate): 20.5 x 16.6 cm (8 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1956.14.24. 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.