Woman in a Cape (La femme à la pèlerine)
Albert Besnard
1889
Medium
etching, drypoint, and aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.3 × 15.5 cm (9 3/16 × 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 25.9 × 19 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1469
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...