The Silk Gown (La robe de soie), 1887

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 36.8 × 23.7 cm (14 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)

sheet: 47.5 × 32.6 cm (18 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 66, State i/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.1475

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

"ABesnard" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "1er Etat" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "A. Besnard: La Robe de Soie 1 Etat/sur 3 (to Rare) lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "3" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "33x29" verso, lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 31.

Bibliography

1906: Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.