Madame Besnard
Albert Besnard
1884
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 21.3 × 17.9 cm (8 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.) plate: 26.7 × 20.4 cm (10 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.) sheet: 35.8 × 27.6 cm (14 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1463
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...