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Albert Besnard
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Portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain
Painting ID:: 54102
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Albert Besnard
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1849-1934
French
Albert Besnard Art Locations
(b Paris, 2 June 1849; d Paris, 4 Dec 1936). French painter, printmaker and designer. He was born to an artistic family and was precociously talented. In 1866 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Jean Franois Brmond (1807-68) and Alexandre Cabanel. His Salon dbut in 1868 and his subsequent entries were well received, and in 1874 he won the Prix de Rome with the Death of Timophanes, Tyrant of Corinth (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.). Remaining in Italy for five years, Besnard worked in an academic style influenced by Pietro da Cortona and Michelangelo. |
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Portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain |
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mk235
1886
Oil on canvas
200x155cm
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| Madonna Enthroned between St. John and St. Sebastian (detail) AF | Making Lint | Une main d'homme (df02) | |
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