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It would be difficult to label this drawing as a portrait, an ideal head, or the transformation of a Renaissance figure into a contemporary person because the art of Alphonse Legros repeatedly combines these elements. The idealized beauty of the head evokes a Renaissance concept of perfection, and the use of the metal point technique harks back to that earlier time as well.</div>
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Alphonse Legros</div>
1886<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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