Art, literature & history
Evening at the Window
1884
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint
- Collection no.
- 1944.516
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alphonse Legros. Evening at the Window. Alphonse Legros; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Evening at the Window — Alphonse Legros. 1884.
Medium: etching and drypoint. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This etching is one of more than 600 that Alphonse Legros created throughout his career. He favored this technique, which allowed artists to sketch on a copper plate as if drawing on paper, for its spontaneity. Legros often worked directly on the plate, crossing off portions to be trimmed away as he went. In this image of a man staring through an open window, Legros scribbled along the upper and lower margins to give the composition a more specific focus.
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.