Legros made four self-portrait prints during 1905, all based on the same profile. The printing of this lithograph in red ink replicates the look of a red chalk drawing: the image is uncannily similar to that of Melzi's portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (no. 96, alongside), which had been reproduced several times by 1905. Legros presumably knew such a reproduction and modelled his own portrait on that of Leonardo, either in earnest or in jest.

No. 97