Bereavement, plate five from Woman

Bereavement, plate five from Woman by Albert Besnard

Medium

Etching on cream Japanese paper

Dimensions

Plate: 31.7 × 24.6 cm (12 1/2 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 39 × 31.5 cm (15 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

27842

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...

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