
Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934)
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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