Paul-Albert Besnard
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Paul-Albert Besnard was a French painter and printmaker.
Albert Besnard (1913), photograph by Agence de presse Meurisse. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain (Henriette Jourdain), oil on canvas, 1886
Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), etching, 1887
Portrait of the Kharitonenko Sisters, oil on canvas, 1903, at the Pushkin Museum
Carolus-Duran
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Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran, was a French painter and art instructor during the Belle Époque. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republ
Paul-Albert Besnard
…French painters. A foundation member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890, in 1913 he became a member of the Institute. He succeeded Carolus Duran as director of the Académie française in Rome. In 1912, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts and became director of the École des…
Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1879, oils; Clark Art Institute
Carolus-Duran (c. 1880)
The Lady in Gloves, modeled by his wife Pauline
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