19th Century European

Etching, image size 8 x 9 ", 1900 in plate,

Etching, 1875, image size 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, plate signed

Etching, 1887, image size 11 1/8/x 8 3/8 inches, plate signed

Etching, 1884, image size 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, plate signed

Etching, image size 8 1/4 x 117/8 inches, plate signed

Etching, inscribed: "La Lecon de Musique" Paris 1878, signed in plate

Etching, image size 6 1/4 x 9 1/2", plate signed C. Beauverie

Etching, image size 9 x 6 1/4 inches, MT-116

Etching, 1858, image size 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches, plate signed

This c. 1886 etching from the French artist, Paul Albert Besnard, measures 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches, pencil signed, editioned (three of 100), plate 10 of 12 from a series titled "La Femme", delteil 56(2nd state). Besnard studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and for the beginning of his artistic career concentrated on a very academic style of painting and composition, before adopting a more impressionistic approach of portraying light and color; later he went to England to study portraiture with Thomas Gainesborough and Joshua Reynolds.