Greeting Grandmother (Le Bonjour à la Grand-mère)
c. 1926
Medium
etching, drypoint, false-biting, and softground etching on Arches laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.6 x 31.6 cm (9 11/16 x 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 32.9 x 41 cm (12 15/16 x 16 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
1996.136.12
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...