The Visitor, from the third album of L'Estampe originale

The Visitor, from the third album of L'Estampe originale by Albert Besnard

Medium

Lithograph on tan wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 35.5 × 46 cm (14 × 18 1/8 in.); Sheet: 41.3 × 58.4 cm (16 5/16 × 23 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

27704

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...

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