Albert Besnard and His Model
artist
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Date1896
Place MadeSweden, Europe
MediumEtching on laid paper
Dimensions50.2 x 34.6 cm (19 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.3.o.164
eMuseum ID728829
Original Number3.2.o.105
EmbARK ObjectID14098
TMS Source ID2926
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentarySitting closely behind the French artist Albert Besnard (1849–1934), Zorn gives a drastically cropped and foreshortened view of his friend with a model in the background. Zorn visited Besnard in his Paris studio, and together they engaged in a jovial competition by drawing the same model at the same time; this etching is the result. The few lines that build up Besnard’s back and knee demonstrate Zorn’s talent with the etching needle.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the Museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the Museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.
BibliographyNotesMichelle Facos. Swedish Impressionism’s Boston Champion: Anders Zorn and Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum VI. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993), pp. 18-20.
Sven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 142, ZG105.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), p. 138, no. 20.
Sven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 142, ZG105.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), p. 138, no. 20.
MarksNotesSigned in plate (lower right): Zorn
Inscribed in plate (upper left corner): Chez Besnard
Signed in graphite (lower margin): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 105
Numbered in graphite (verso, lower left corner): A.105
Inscribed in plate (upper left corner): Chez Besnard
Signed in graphite (lower margin): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 105
Numbered in graphite (verso, lower left corner): A.105
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
