Portrait of the artist

1880

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and drypoint; third state of four
Dimensions: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (42.8 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 14 1/4 × 10 1/16 in. (36.2 × 25.5 cm)
Collection no.: 43.96
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Alphonse Legros. Portrait of the artist. Alphonse Legros; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Herman T. Radin, 1943. 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

Portrait of the artist — Alphonse Legros. 1880.

Medium: Etching and drypoint; third state of four. Dimensions: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (42.8 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 14 1/4 × 10 1/16 in. (36.2 × 25.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Herman T. Radin, 1943.

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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