Delivery, plate three from Woman
c. 1886
Medium
Etching and drypoint and aquatint on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 31.7 × 24.7 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 31.2 cm (15 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27846
Art Historical Context
Albert Besnard's *Delivery, plate three from Woman* (c. 1886) is a masterful print from the French artist's intimate series exploring themes of femininity and. Created during the vibrant late 19th-century Parisian art scene, Besnard, a leading Symbolist painter and printmaker, captured the raw emotion of childbirth with delicate sensitivity. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings department, this etching 31.7 × 24.7 cm and exemplifies Besnard's innovative approach to intimate, human subjects amid the era's fascination with naturalism and psychological depth. Printed on luxur...
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...