Blonde Woman at her Toilette
Paul-Albert Besnard French
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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.
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