The Doll

Paul-Albert Besnard

1888 · Etching; fifth of five states · 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 Poupée', a small girl viewed from behind lifts a doll above her head onto a bed; a chair is in the lower right foregroud between the viewer and the girl.

Artist

Paul-Albert Besnard

Date

1888

Medium

Etching; fifth of five states

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967