The Suicide (Le Suicide)

c. 1886

Albert Besnard

Associated Names
Albert Besnard

Artist, French, 1849 - 1934

This is a print of a person crouched on the edge of a bridge with a road on the left, with a horse-drawn cart passing over it and the skyline of a city in the distance. The road stretches into the distance, bordered by the outlines of tall buildings. The person in the center is hunched over, with their head resting on their arms, as they sit on the edge of what appears to be a bridge or elevated path. The edge of the bridge falls off in a sheer drop toward the bottom-right corner, and we can’t see what is below it.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q74888026

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