The Woman in the Cape

Paul-Albert Besnard

1889 · Etching and drypoint; sixth state of six · 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. In 'La femme à la pèlerine' a woman viewed in profile in a black dress wearing a cape over her shoulders stands on a balcony, turning her head out towards the viewer and looking downward.

Artist

Paul-Albert Besnard

Date

1889

Medium

Etching and drypoint; sixth state of six

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918