Minneapolis Institute of Art

Study of Nude Female Figure

Albert Besnard

Date

1886

Medium

Etching

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Albert Besnard's artistic output was highly varied, ranging from decorative wall murals in public buildings to fashionable portraits and intimate studies. Again and again he returned to the subject of women. He portrayed them in all moods and modes: asleep, dead, giving birth. He would use his wife and friends as models or hire models to pose in his studio, as he did for Study of a Nude Figure. France, Europe

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