Portrait Of Adèle Besson
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The ''Portrait of Adèle Besson'' is a 1918 oil painting in the
Post-Impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...
style made by
Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...
, depicting the wife of George Besson. The painting represents Renoir's late work period (1892–1919). The couple gave a large bequest to the Museum of Fine Arts in
Besançon Besançon (, ; , ; archaic ; ) is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland. Capi ...
(
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).Russell T. Clement, Annick Houzé Neo-impressionist Painters: A Sourcebook on Georges Seurat, ... - 1999 - Page 245 "Catalogue raisonné to the collection of 20"1 century prints and drawings assembled by George and Adèle Besson and donated to the Musée des Beaux-arts et d'archeologie in Besancon, France in 1970. Includes works by 40 European artists" Their collection consisted of works of contemporary art (early 20th century). The installation of the collection at the Museum caused the expansion of the museum building, including the construction of the central staircase by Louis Miquel (student of
Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...
). This picture is part of their bequest.


See also

* List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir * 1918 in art


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Portrait of Adele Besson Portraits of women 1918 paintings 20th-century portraits Portraits by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon