Rothenstein was taught by Alphonse Legros, Professor of Drawing at the Slade School of Art in 1888. Legros encouraged his students to draw from life. He also encouraged Rothenstein to go to Paris. Rothenstein purchased this bronze torso for the collection in 1939.
Female Torso 1890-1911bronze by Alphonse Legros (1837-1911).
Small female torso mounted on a square base.
Rothenstein trained at the Slade School of Art in 1888 under the Professor of Drawing, Alphonse Legros. Legros enforced upon his students the importance of drawing from the life model, a French practise rarely used in British art achools at the time, and encouraged Rothenstein to go to Paris where he attended the Académie Julian from 1889 to 1893.
At the Slade they “did draw, at a time when everywhere else in England students were rubbing and tickling their paper with stump, chalk, charcoal and Indian rubber. Legros himself was first and foremost a great draughtsman. He was a disciple of Montegra, Raphael and Rembrandt, of Ingres and Delacroix, of Poussin and Claude. He taught us to draw freely with the point, to build up our drawings by observing the broad planes of the model.”
William Rothenstein
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, purchased by Sir William Rothenstein
Image © Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
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