id: 104123 accession number: 1922.284 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.284 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:49.128000 In the Ashes, 1887. Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934). Etching, drypoint and roulette; sheet: 44.9 x 32.7 cm (17 11/16 x 12 7/8 in.); plate: 43.1 x 31.1 cm (16 15/16 x 12 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1922.284 title: In the Ashes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1887 creation date earliest: 1887 creation date latest: 1887 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: etching, drypoint and roulette department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Coppier 57 --- CREATORS * Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934) - artist Albert Besnard's parents-his father an amateur painter who studied with Ingres (q.v.) and his mother a miniaturist-influenced his early artistic career. In 1866 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied in the ateliers of Jean- François Brémond (1807-1868), who taught the young Besnard fresco painting, and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), one of the foremost Second Empire academic painters. Besnard first exhibited at the Salon of 1868, which proved to be the beginning of his official success and in 1874 he won the Prix de Rome, an honor that gave him the opportunity to spend four years at the Villa Medici. Besnard's success as a portraitist began in London, where he stayed from 1879 until 1881. He studied seventeenth-century British portrait painters and emulated the British colorists, Turner (q.v.) in particular. Besnard's reputation as a portrait painter followed him back to Paris where he received numerous commissions from prominent figures of the Third Republic (1870-1940). In addition to portrait painting, Besnard was commissioned by the state to paint mural decorations for various public buildings in Paris. He also experimented with different media such as pastel and etching and designed decorations for stained glass. Besnard received numerous awards and was re-cognized by his contemporaries, including the symbolists. He held the directorships of the École de Rome in 1913 and of the École Supérieure Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1923 to 1934. --- measurements: Sheet: 44.9 x 32.7 cm (17 11/16 x 12 7/8 in.); Plate: 43.1 x 31.1 cm (16 15/16 x 12 1/4 in.) state of the work: ii/ii edition of the work: 100 support materials: description: beige (1) heavy laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in pencil: A Besnard translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Modern Etchings from Museum Collections opening date: 1923-06-06T04:00:00 Modern Etchings from Museum Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-September 11, 1923). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Keppel & Co., sold to the Print Club of Cleveland) date: 1922 footnotes: citations: Print Club of Cleveland, gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1922 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.284/1922.284_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.284/1922.284_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.284/1922.284_full.tif