Old man, Old Tree (Vieil homme, vieil arbre) 

"Old man, Old Tree" (Vieil homme, vieil arbre) is a powerful etching by Alphonse Legros, a renowned French artist known for his stark realism. The print depicts a weathered, elderly man hunched over, his face obscured by a thick beard, sitting beneath a gnarled tree with bare branches, creating a sense of solitude and vulnerability. Legros' masterful use of light and shadow, coupled with the intricate details of the man's wrinkled skin and the tree's twisted branches, evokes a profound sense of mortality and the passage of time.