Model Asleep on the Floor (Le modèle endormi à terre), 1885

Not on View

Medium

etching, roulette, and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.8 x 23.7 cm (7 x 9 5/16 in.)

sheet: 19.2 x 27.9 cm (7 9/16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 23, State only

Accession Number

1997.91.10

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right below plate mark in graphite: ABesnard; upper right in plate: AB; by later hand, lower left in brown ink: 267; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: 268; by later hand, center left verso in graphite: 23-1

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Bell, Daniel, Professor and Mrs.

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.

1920: Coppier, André-Charles. Les Eaux-Fortes de Besnard. Paris: Librairie Berger-Levrault, 1920.