The Visitor, from the third album of L'Estampe originale
Albert Besnard
1893
Medium
Lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 35.5 × 46 cm (14 × 18 1/8 in.); Sheet: 41.3 × 58.4 cm (16 5/16 × 23 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27704
Rights
Public Domain
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...