Albert Besnard
La Convalescence
1883
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Albert Besnard
La Convalescence
1883
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 248 × 158 mm. (9 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.)
Image: 229 × 143 mm. (9 × 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.182
This print, and The Illness (1996.48.186), are after oil sketches by Besnard for wall decorations at l'Ecole de pharmacie de Paris. Delteil distinguishes states ii and iii by plate size; as this print is trimmed within the platemark, the state is undetermined.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Patricia Eckert Boyer, In Sickness and In Health: Medicine and Health Care in 19th-Century French Prints, A Salute to the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Industry (New Brunswick, NJ: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1984), cat. 36, fig. 20.
Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustré: Albert Besnard par Louis Godefroy (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1926) vol. 30, #19.
Inscribed: None
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
