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Alphonse Legros

Head of a Man

1886
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler encouraged Alphonse Legros to visit London in 1863, and he spent the rest of his life there.

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