The Suicide (Le Suicide), c. 1886

Not on View

series Title

La Femme [Del. 47-58]

Medium

etching in black with plate tone on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.3 x 24.5 cm (12 5/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 44.5 x 32 cm (17 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 57, State i/iii

Accession Number

1991.28.3

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: ABesnard; lower left in graphite: 1r et.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: ii/iii RARE; by later hand, lower center in graphite: T C 57

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 1990.

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.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.226.