Intimacy (Intimité)
Albert Besnard
1889
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.9 × 23.7 cm (7 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 22.3 × 29.1 cm (8 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1470
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...