Sadness

Paul-Albert Besnard

1887 · Etching; third state of three · Drawings and Prints

Paul-Albert Besnard (1849-1934) was a student of the academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), won the prix de Rome in 1874 and was among the founders of the Société Nationale in 1890. Throughout his career his style remained in between academic and impressionistic. During the last thirty years of his life he held important positions in the Académie de France in Rome, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Académie française, the Académie de Saint Luc and the Royal Academy. This etching was published in the July 1887 edition of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.

Artist

Paul-Albert Besnard

Date

1887

Medium

Etching; third state of three

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Dr. Ralph Weiler, 1960