Minneapolis Institute of Art

Portrait of the Artist Alphonse Legros

Date

1856

Medium

Oil on linen

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Painted entirely en plein air during an outing in the French countryside, Fantin-Latour’s depiction of his fellow artist and friend Alphonse Legros is a lively and direct portrait. The two became close while attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Two years after Fantin-Latour painted this portrait, he and Legros joined with English artist James Abbot McNeil Whistler to form the famous “Group of Three, ” motivated by their aversion to the contemporary academic system of artistic training. Fantin-Latour painted Legros on several occasions; this is the earliest known example. France, Europe

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