Woman with a Vase
Albert Besnard
1894
Medium
Etching and aquatint on white laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 19.6 × 13.8 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 31.2 × 24.6 cm (12 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
69676
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...