Date: 1894
Technique: Etching and aquatint in brown with brown wash on brown wove paper, 25.1 x 18.6 cm
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Showing posts with label Albert Besnard (1849-1934). Show all posts
1/11/15
Albert Besnard, Woman with a Vase (La femme au vase)
Date: 1894
Technique: Etching and aquatint in brown with brown wash on brown wove paper, 25.1 x 18.6 cm
Albert Besnard, Melancholy (Mélancolie)
Date: 1888
Technique: Etching and softground etching in brown on cream laid paper, 32.5 x 25.2 cm
Albert Besnard, Too Demanding (Exigeante)
Date: 1900
Technique: Etching in black on van gelder zonen wove paper, 44.9 x 31.6 cm
Albert Besnard, Discreet (Discrète)
Date: 1900
Technique: Etching in black on van gelder zonen wove paper, 44.9 x 32.1 cm
Albert Besnard, Possession (La possession)
Date: 1900
Technique: Etching in black on van gelder zonen wove paper, 44.9 x 31.9 cm
Albert Besnard, The End (La Fin de Tout)
Date: 1883
Technique: Etching in black on laid paper, 32.2 x 25.4 cm
1/10/15
Albert Besnard, The Enigma (L'énigme)
Date: 1900
Technique: Etching and aquatint in black on van gelder zonen wove paper, 44.9 x 32.1 cm
Albert Besnard, Which One? (Lequel?)
Date: 1900
Technique: Etching in black on van gelder zonen wove paper, 45.4 x 31.8 cm
Albert Besnard, Morphine Addicts
Date: 1887
Technique: Etching, 23.7 x 37 cm
In fin-de-siècle Paris, Albert Besnard was celebrated for the decorative paintings he contributed to public buildings such as the Sorbonne and Petit Palais. At the same time, he maintained a private but prolific career as a printmaker. Besnard's etchings tended toward darker subject matter, drawing from the cultural anxieties that permeated life in the French capital during these years. This work shows two young women who are—as the title alludes—habitual morphine users. The drug was prevalent in Paris at the close of the century and was referred to frequently throughout popular culture, from artwork to cabaret songs. The pair gaze toward the viewer with vacant, drug-induced stares. The cigarette held by one indicates their subversiveness and provided an alternate title for the print, which was also called The Plume. Combined with the complex array of textures featured in the work, these wisps of smoke—probably achieved by "stopping-out" the plate, or applying a material to prevent acid from acting upon it—indicate the technical mastery that Besnard had already attained in etching early in his career.
12/7/12
Albert Besnard, Decoration for a Ceiling (Décoration du plafond)
Technique: Unknown
Ceiling decoration for city hall of Paris (Salon des Sciences de l’hôtel de Ville de Paris).
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