Woman in Full Profile (Grand profil de femme)
Albert Besnard
1892
Medium
etching in brown on cream laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.1 x 13 cm (5 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 17.2 x 15.6 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell
Accession Number
1993.71.5
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...