"Couche de Soliel" by Alphonse Legros, Fr., (1837-1911) Pastel Kansas City Art Institute and

Kansas City Art Institute and elsewhere

There are tack holes with minor rust stains at margin edges from the original stretching and drying of this proof after printing

In these regards there is an affinity with the experimental  "L'Art Brute" lithographs of Jean Dubuffet

Created two years after the first American lithograph

with multiple tack holes to the four corners

"Couche de Soliel" by Alphonse Legros, Fr., (1837-1911) Pastel Kansas City Art Institute andDrypoint, 1880's, 3rd. s., B. 254III, Ed. unknown, 3 3 4 x 6 7 8, signed in pencil, on cream laid paper. A modest little landscape, rendered lyrical by virtue of Legros's magnificent draftsmanship which makes us see beauty in the ordinary.