Eve
Albert Besnard
1896
Medium
Etching and drypoint in bistre ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Plate: 18 × 13 cm (7 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 23.6 × 18.1 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84564
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...