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| Artist / Maker | Albert Besnard |
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| Date | 1917 |
| Culture / Origin | French |
| Medium | etching and drypoint on laid paper |
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About the Artist
Albert Besnard's parents-his father an amateur painter who studied with Ingres (q.v.) and his mother a miniaturist-influenced his early artistic career. In 1866 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied in the ateliers of Jean- François Brémond (1807-1868), who taught the young Besnard fresco painting, and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), one of the foremost Second Empire academic painters. Besnard first exhibited at the Salon of 1868, which proved to be the beginning of his official success and in 1874… Full biography →
Provenance & Source
Image & data: National Gallery of Art, Washington · Licence: CC0.
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