Nude Woman by a Mirror
Paul-Albert Besnard French
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 'Femme nue auprès d'une glace' is a bust length portrait of a nude woman seating next so a mirror, leaning onto her elbows; she turns her head towards the viewer and her body is seen in profile; her reflection is echoed in the mirror.
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