The Doll, Engraving By Albert Besnard, 1888

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 Sébastienelteil Cornu. In 1874, he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his composition La Mort de Timophane, tyran de Corinthe... No. 72 at Delteil and 91 at Coppier. 5th state. It reads in the bottom margin: Alb Besnard inv and sc, further on: La poupée. In this state the plate appeared outside the text in the deluxe copies of Delteil.