The Bathroom (La Toilette)

Paul-Albert Besnard

1905 · Etching; second state of two · 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.

Artist

Paul-Albert Besnard

Date

1905

Medium

Etching; second state of two

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Dr. Ralph Weiler, 1960