Childbirth, Engraving By Albert Besnard, 1886

Albert Besnard, painter, decorator and engraver; His parents were Louis Adolphe Besnard, a history painter and student of Ingres, and Louise Pauline Vaillant, a renowned miniaturist and student of Lizinska de Mirbel. Albert Besnard studied with Jean-François Brémond and was admitted on March 20, 1866 to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Sébastien Cornu. In 1874, he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his composition La Mort de Timophane, tyran de Corinthe... Our engraving, printed on a fine laid paper, bears the handwritten signature at the bottom right of Albert Besnard, annotated at the bottom left: Printed at 100 Number 49 of Delteil, this is a 2nd state. The left and right margins of the sheet have been turned over. This engraving is part of the series "La femme", plate III.