Apotheosis (L'Apothéose), c. 1886

Not on View

series Title

Woman (La Femme): pl.12

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.6 x 24.7 cm (12 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 51 x 32.5 cm (20 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 58, State i/ii

Accession Number

1997.91.1

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left below plate mark in graphite: Tirée à 100; lower right below plate mark in graphite: ABesnard; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 58-1

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bell, Daniel, Professor and Mrs.

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

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.