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Blonde Woman at her Toilette

1909

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The story

Besnard printed this etching in an edition of 75 in 1909. Two years later the Gazette des Beaux-Arts reproduced it as Femme Nue to illustrate Paul Adam's essay on symbolism in Besnard's art, and the critic André-Charles Coppier admired the light trembling on her flesh and raised hair.

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Object details

Title: Blonde Woman at her Toilette
Artist: Albert Besnard
Date: 1909
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Etching
Object type: Prints
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (17.3.657)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0.
Object number: EFA.0838
Original image: 2045 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Albert Besnard. Blonde Woman at her Toilette. 1909. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (17.3.657). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0838/