Madame Besnard
Albert Besnard
1884
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 26.9 × 20.8 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 24.5 cm (12 7/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11324
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...