The Dancer of Tanjore (La bayadère of Tanjore)
1914
Medium
etching, drypoint, and printed tone on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.1 × 24.1 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 41 × 31.3 cm (16 1/8 × 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1483
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Albert Besnard · 1849–1934
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...