The Silk Dress
Albert Besnard
1887
Medium
Etching and aquatint in red-brown ink on Japanese paper
Dimensions
Plate: 37 × 23.5 cm (14 5/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 33.3 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
18700
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...