The Doll

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.
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.

The Doll, Paul-Albert Besnard (French, Paris 1849–1934 Paris), Etching; fifth of five states

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