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Albert Besnard

85 works

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Etching of four studies of women's heads and shoulders in varied poses, signed Besnard, with a numbered margin.

Four Heads of Women: Study for “The Happy Island” (Quatre têtes de Femmes: Étude pour “L’Ile Heureuse”)

1899

Etching of a boy with a bobbed haircut holding a donkey's halter, with a doorway and flowers behind them.

Robert Besnard and His Donkey (Robert Besnard et son âne)

1888

Etching of a bowed figure with hand to face, wrapped in a dark cloak, beside a leafy wreath.

Sadness

1887

Etching of a dancer with raised arms in a long skirt beside a seated turbaned musician playing a stringed instrument.

The Dancer

circa 1900

Reddish-brown etching of a seated woman in a voluminous silk dress beside a high-backed armchair in an interior.

The Silk Dress

1887

Etching of a mother with two children on a bed, a standing woman at right, and a tray with dishes beside heavy curtains.

Le Déjeuner (ou Maternité heureuse) [Lunch, or Happy Maternity]

1886

Etching of a couple embracing by a doorway, with a rowboat on water and a bicycle by a railing at left.

L'amour (Love), from the series La femme (Woman)

1886

La femme à la pèlerine (Woman with a cape)

1889

Etching of a woman in a hat reading by a window, with dense hatched shadows in the interior.

Lezende vrouw voor het raam

1888

Etching of a woman drawing at a lamp-lit table while a child leans in beside her in a dark room.

Vrouw en kind aan tafel tekenend, verlicht door een schemerlamp

1928

Lithograph of a candlelit dinner scene with a seated man and a standing woman, with faint faces at the table in darkness.

The Visitor, from the third album of L'Estampe originale

1893

Etching of a standing man in a top hat beside a seated, veiled woman in a dark interior with curtains and faint onlookers.

Bereavement, plate five from Woman

c. 1886

Etching of a woman holding a baby on a bed beside a tray, with a servant standing in a doorway at right.

Breakfast, plate four from Woman

c. 1886

Etching of a seated man embracing a reclining woman on a sofa beside a bright window in a shadowy room.

Flirtation, plate six from Woman

c. 1886

Etching of a dark hunched figure leaning on a parapet above a lamplit street with a carriage and city skyline.

Suicide, plate eleven from Woman

c. 1886

Etching of two figures in a dark interior, one reclining near a bright window with curtains.

Intimacy

1889

Etching of a nude woman sleeping with her head on her arm across rumpled cushions, with loose hatched background.

The Sleeping Model

1885