ALBERT-PAUL-LOUIS BESNARD (PARIS 1849-1934)

Lot 121
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementFrance, Paris
ID 1390047
Lot 121 | ALBERT-PAUL-LOUIS BESNARD (PARIS 1849-1934)
Valeur estimée
€ 4 000 – 6 000
ALBERT-PAUL-LOUIS BESNARD (PARIS 1849-1934)
Portrait de Louis Duchesne (1843-1922)
signé et daté ‘ABesnard./ 1922’ (à gauche au centre) et avec inscriptions ‘Louis Duchesne 1922 ’ (verso du montage au graphite)
fusain, estompe
63,1 x 48,6 cm (24 7/8 x 19 1/8 in.)




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ALBERT-PAUL-LOUIS BESNARD, PORTRAIT OF LOUIS DUCHESNE, CHARCOAL, STUMP, SIGNED AND DATED 1922
Recognised by public commissions and awarded with every official distinction, Albert Besnard was an important painter of the Third Republic. He was made Commander of the Legion d'honneur in 1905, became Director of the Villa Médicis from 1913, then Director of the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1922; finally, in an exceptional feat for a painter, he was elected to the Académie française in 1924. When he died in 1934, he received a national tribute, captured by the first news cameras (N. Heumann, Albert Besnard, Modernités belle époque, Paris, 2016, p.27-29). It was at the Villa Médicis that he met Louis Duchesne, with whom he became friends. Taken in the year of Louis Duchesne's death in 1922, this portrait could be compared with a photograph, showing him posing for a bust sculpted by Philippe Besnard, son of Albert Besnard (fig. 1).
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