Auguste Legras (1817-1887) Portrait Of A Young Man In Profile, Signed Drawing

Auguste Legras (1817-1887)
Portrait of a young man in profile,
signed lower right
Charcoal, red and white chalks on paper
45 x 31.5 cm
Framed : 52 x 39 cm

This particularly evocative portrait, typical of French Romantic art, uses the classic technique of the ‘three pencils’ (Trois crayons), with the use of black, red and white to create the most realistic and vivid effect.

Auguste Legras, born on 2 June 1817 in Périgueux and died on 16 October 1887 in Paris, was a French painter.
He was a pupil of Bonnefond at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon and of Ary Scheffer in Paris, and exhibited at the Salon from 1844, winning a gold medal in 1857.
His works are held at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Périgueux and Cherbourg and at the Musée de La Vie Romantique in Paris.
Literature : Bénézit T8 p 450