BESNARD, Albert
(b. 1849, Paris, d. 1934, Paris)

La Loge

1887-89
Pastel on board, 62 x 51 cm
Private collection

The theme of La Loge (or at the Theatre) epitomises leisure and luxury depicted within a public space in which women were acceptably portrayed. This subject was also popular with other painters of the period, namely Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Mary Cassatt.




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