The Woman in the Cape

1889
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Woman in the Cape
  • Artist: Paul-Albert Besnard (French, Paris 1849–1934 Paris)
  • Date: 1889
  • Medium: Etching and drypoint; sixth state of six
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 28 cm)
    Plate: 9 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23 × 15.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918
  • Object Number: 18.88.19
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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