The End
Albert Besnard
1883
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 22.7 × 19.5 cm (8 15/16 × 7 11/16 in.) plate: 24.1 × 20.9 cm (9 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 32.6 × 25.4 cm (12 13/16 × 10 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1506
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...