Blonde Woman at her Toilette

Paul-Albert Besnard

1909 · Etching; single state · 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. 'Femme blonde à sa toilette' illustrated an article by Paul Adam entitled 'Le Symbolisme dans l'Oeuvre d'Albert Besnard' which appeared in the December 1911 Gazette des Beaux-Arts. A nude woman is portrayed in semi profile from the waist, seated, turning her head and shoulder toward the viewer.

Artist

Paul-Albert Besnard

Date

1909

Medium

Etching; single state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917