Charlotte Besnard

Alongside her husband, the academic painter Albert Besnard (1849–1934), Charlotte Besnard found inspiration in the joys of family life and the beauty of young girls and children. She was also the creator of the tomb of the Belgian Symbolist writer Georges Rodenbach in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, as well as statuettes in earthenware or stoneware, often polychrome.

Charlotte Besnard

Charlotte Besnard (1860-1936), Madame Aman-Jean, 1902, terra cotta, Orsay Museum, on deposit at La Piscine de Roubaix - musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent © La Piscine de Roubaix, photo Leprince

Discover this artist as part of the exhibition In the Time of Camille Claudel, Being a Woman Sculptor in Paris