A Family (Une famille)
Albert Besnard
1890
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.9 x 11.1 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 26.1 x 18.1 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
Accession Number
2003.118.5
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...