The Visitor

Albert Besnard

1893

Lithograph with scraping out

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Busy with commissions for public ceiling murals in Paris, Albert Besnard had never made a lithograph until André Marty recruited him for L'Estampe originale. This scene betrays Besnard's fear of dying young like his father: A woman is bathed in a swirl of light, loved ones, and privilege, unaware of Death lurking at the door. Besnard didn't take to lithography and turned to etching for his other two L'Estampe originale prints. Gallery Not on View Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Foster, 1965