01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Alphonse Legros' Femmes en Prière/ Women at prayer - with footnotes #201

Alphonse Legros 1837–1911

Femmes en / Women at prier, c. 1888

Oil paint on canvas

Support: 1335 × 1770 mm

Tate

This work portrays a group of mainly young women, seated or kneeling to pray, in a dimly lit austere French church. The women are all dressed in black with primarily white caps. One cannot conceive anything more gently touching than this grand and pensive scheme, where all is on the same lofty level – sentiment, form and execution. More on this painting

Alphonse Legros, (b Dijon, 8 May 1837; d Watford, 8 Dec. 1911). French-born painter and printmaker who settled in England in 1863 (encouraged by Whistler) and became a British citizen in 1881, although he never acquired fluency in English. His chief importance was as an influential teacher (particularly of etching) at the Slade School, where he was professor 1876–92 in succession to Poynter. He encouraged a respect for the tradition of the Old Masters. More on Alphonse Legros

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