Self-Portrait
Albert Besnard
1919
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.7 × 10.7 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 26.1 × 18.3 cm (10 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1487
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...