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Albert Besnard: French, 1849 - 1934

The Dancer of Tanjore (La bayadère de Tanjore)
1914: etching in brown-red with plate tone on wove paper; plate: 29.8 x 24 cm (11 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.); sheet: 44.4 x 29.3 cm (17 1/2 x 11 9/16 in.); Delteil, no. 174, State i/iv; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art; 1991.28.5; Not on View

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lower left in graphite: ABesnard; lower right in graphite: Premier etat. Tiree a dix; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 174 1er/4

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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.