Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934)
Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne
c. 1879–80
Albert Besnard's 'Portrait of Madeleine Lerolle and her Daughter Yvonne' (1879) shows the wife and child of Besnard's friend, the painter Henry Lerolle, in a softly lit interior full of late 19th-century Parisian warmth. Besnard's bold, Impressionist-infused handling combined with a Renoir-like tenderness for the sitters. Oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art.
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