Research Catalog

Title

The artist's wife and children [graphic] / Besnard.

Author

Besnard, Paul Albert, 1849-1934.

Publication

ca.1886-1889.

Details

Additional Authors

• Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904.
• S.P. Avery Collection.

Description

2 prints : etching, drypoint; 30.6 x 30 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Etchings of the artist's wife sick in bed being brought breakfast by her two children; and in bed nursing an infant, attended by her maid and an older child, who is drinking hot chocolat.

Subject

• Breastfeeding
• Families
• Motherhood
• Painters' spouses
• Wives
• Women household employees

Genre/Form

Etchings – French – 19th century.

Note

• Signed in pencil: Besnard.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Titles from André Charles Coppier, Les eaux-fortes de Besnard, 1920.
• The Sick Mother is numbered 12/100.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Cite As (note)

• S.P. Avery Collection.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available.

Provenance (note)

• Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Contents

Coppier 75. La mère malade, ou le déjeûner -- Coppier 45. Le Déjeûner.

Call Number

MEZAC

OCLC

NYPG95-F104

Author

Besnard, Paul Albert, 1849-1934.

Title

The artist's wife and children [graphic] / Besnard.

Imprint

ca.1886-1889.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Cite As:

S.P. Avery Collection.

Linking Entry

Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Indexes

Finding aid available.

Provenance

Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.

Added Author

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Collector

S.P. Avery Collection.

Research Call Number

MEZAC