Artist: Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
Title: La Tour aux pigeons (The pigeon house)
Date: 1890-1904?
School: French, XIXth-century
Medium: drypoint
Dimensions: 76 x 171mm (plate), 115 x 200mm (sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: signed in pencil lower right <<A. Legros>>, annotated in pencil in Harold Wright’s hand, lower left to centre border <<(Bliss duplicate) “la Tour aux pigeons” C313 only state>>, collector’s mark stamped in red lower right, Francis Edward Bliss (1847-1930), Lugt, L.265.
Condition: fine
Description: A pigeonnier in a landscape. Francis Edward Bliss was known to have formed the most comprehensive collection of Legros’ prints. The bulk of this collection was bought by the American collector Alfred Wiggin and donated to the Boston Public Library. Harold Wright was a print dealer at P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. and an authority on Legros. He organised the sale to Wiggin.
Reference: Legros catalogue, 313
Provenance: Paul Prouté, Paris
