Woman, frontispiece from Woman

Woman, frontispiece from Woman by Albert Besnard

Medium

Etching, drypoint and aquatint on cream Japanese paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 31.4 × 24.6 cm (12 3/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 38.5 × 30.5 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

27866

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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