Bathing at Talloires (Bagnade à Taillores) (The Swim), from "L'Estampe Originale"

1894

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.

Artwork Details

Title: Bathing at Talloires (Bagnade à Taillores) (The Swim), from "L'Estampe Originale"
Series/Portfolio: l'Estampe Originale, Album VIII
Artist: Paul-Albert Besnard (French, Paris 1849–1934 Paris)
Publisher: André Marty (French, born 1857)
Date: 1894
Medium: Etching and aquatint; second state of two
Dimensions: Plate: 6 3/16 × 9 3/8 in. (15.7 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (40.8 × 34.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
Object Number: 22.82.1-71
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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