Art, literature & history
Sir Edward John Poynter
1877
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 25.7 x 17.1 cm (10 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 35 x 25.8 cm (13 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1997.88.11
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alphonse Legros. Sir Edward John Poynter. 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,_Sir_Edward_John_Poynter,_NGA_79384.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sir Edward John Poynter — Alphonse Legros. 1877.
Medium: etching and drypoint in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 25.7 x 17.1 cm (10 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 35 x 25.8 cm (13 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1997.88.11. Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict.
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.