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Oct 22, 2007

Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne

c. 1879–80

Albert Besnard

(French, 1849–1934)

France, 19th century

Oil on fabric

Framed: 191.5 x 142.2 x 9.5 cm (75 3/8 x 56 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 165 x 115.5 cm (64 15/16 x 45 1/2 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1977.120

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219 19th Century European

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This double portrait, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1883, depicts the wife and daughter of Besnard's friend and fellow artist Henri Lerolle. Besnard emphasized their close relationship by placing Madeleine Lerolle and her daughter Yvonne in the familiar setting of the artist's studio, reflecting the artist's stated ambition of portraying figures in the natural setting of the world in which they live.

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Albert Besnard

Albert Besnard's parents-his father an amateur painter who studied with Ingres (q.v.) and his mother a miniaturist-influenced his early artistic career. In 1866 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied in the ateliers of Jean- François Brémond (1807-1868), who taught the young Besnard fresco painting, and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), one of the foremost Second Empire academic painters. Besnard first exhibited at the Salon of 1868, which proved to be the beginning of his official success and in 1874 he won the Prix de Rome, an honor that gave him the opportunity to spend four years at the Villa Medici. Besnard's success as a portraitist began in London, where he stayed from 1879 until 1881. He studied seventeenth-century British portrait painters and emulated the British colorists, Turner (q.v.) in particular. Besnard's reputation as a portrait painter followed him back to Paris where he received numerous commissions from prominent figures of the Third Republic (1870-1940). In addition to portrait painting, Besnard was commissioned by the state to paint mural decorations for various public buildings in Paris. He also experimented with different media such as pastel and etching and designed decorations for stained glass. Besnard received numerous awards and was re-cognized by his contemporaries, including the symbolists. He held the directorships of the École de Rome in 1913 and of the École Supérieure Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1923 to 1934.

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Inscription

Signed upper right: ABesnard. [AB in monogram]

Provenance

Henri Lerolle (1883, 1913), by descent. Brame & Lorenceau, Paris. Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin. Given to the CMA in 1977.

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 212 archive.org

Broun, Francis J. P. The Seven Ages of Man: Inaugural Exhibition, May 3-June 15, 1980. London, England: London Regional Art Gallery, 1980. Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 18, 19, cover.

Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 24-27, Vol. I, no. 9

Lerolle, Aggy. Henry Lerolle: Paris 1848-1929. Willaupuis, Belgium: Wapica; Paris: Société des Amis d'Henry Lerolle, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44

Exhibition history

Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées. Salon (1883), no. 224, Portrait de Mme L . . . et de sa petite fille.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit. Exposition Albert Besnard (1905), no. 119, as in coll. Henri Lerolle.

Paris, Palais de Bagatelle (organized by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts). Exposition rétrospective de portraits de femmes sous les trois républiques (1909), no. 11, Portrait de Madame Henri Lerolle, Appartient à M. Lerolle.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery; Art Institute of Chicago; London, Grosvenor Gallery.Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Albert Besnard (1913), no. 2, Portrait of Mme Henri Lerolle and Daughter (now Mme Eugène Rouart), lent by Henri Lerolle (also mentioned on p. 4 of Boston cat.).

London (Ontario) Regional Art Gallery. The Seven Ages of Man (1980), 18-19 (repr.).

Gifu (Japan), Museum of Fine Arts; Kamakura Museum of Modern Art. Paris autour de 1882 (1982-83), no. 11, pl. 11.

CMA (organizer). Beijing World Art Museum, China, May 26 - Aug. 27, 2006; Mori Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan: Sept. 9 - Nov. 26, 2006; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Feb. 21-June 1, 2008; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, June 22 - September 21, 2008; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art"

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-August 13, 1978).

Seven Ages of Man. Museum London, London, Canada (organizer) (May 3-June 15, 1980).

Paris autour de 1882 (Paris around 1882). Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu City, Japan (organizer) (November 3-December 19, 1982); Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan (January 15-February 20, 1983).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).

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