Woman in a Cape (La femme à la pèlerine)
Albert Besnard
1889
Medium
etching, drypoint, and roulette on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.5 × 16 cm (9 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 29.2 × 21.6 cm (11 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.9135
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...