La Femme (frontispiece)
Albert Besnard
c. 1886
Medium
etching and aquatint on Van Gelder laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 31.9 × 24.7 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 48 × 32.4 cm (18 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1464
About the Artist
Albert Besnard
Paul-Albert Besnard, known as Albert Besnard, was born on June 2, 1849, in Paris to an artistic family: his father, Louis Adolphe Ferdinand Besnard, was a history painter and pupil of Ingres, while his mother, Marie Louise Pauline Vaillant, was a noted miniaturist trained under Lizinska de Mirbel. Precociously talented, he began his training under Jean-François Brémond before entering the École de...