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Portrait d'Adèle Besson
Portrait of Adèle Besson
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1918
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
Besançon, France
About this painting
Renoir painted this portrait of Adèle Besson, wife of his friend and collector George Besson, in a single sitting at Cagnes on the morning of 21 January 1918. It entered the Besançon museum in 1972 as part of the Besson donation to the French state.
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 × 36.8 cm (16.1 × 14.5 in)
Painted at
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Current location
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, Besançon
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