On The Banks Of The Ganges At Benares, Engraving By Albert Besnard, 1912

Albert Besnard, painter, decorator and engraver; His parents were Louis Adolphe Besnard, a history painter and student of Ingres, and Louise Pauline Vaillant, a renowned miniaturist and student of Lizinska de Mirbel. Albert Besnard studied with Jean-François Brémond and was admitted on March 20, 1866 to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Sébastien Cornu. In 1874, he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his composition La Mort de Timophane, tyran de Corinthe... No. 168 at Delteil and 156 at Coppier, only 1 state is known of this plate which appeared outside the text in the April 1912 issue of the Revue: L'art et les artistes. Monogram at the bottom left of the plate. A chisel mark in the lower right margin.