Pierre Copies the Virgin from the Portal of the Church of Marly (Pierre Copie la Vierge du Portail de L'Église de Marly)

1885

Albert Besnard

Artist, French, 1849 - 1934

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on cream laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.6 × 8.1 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.)
    plate: 17 × 10.5 cm (6 11/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 31 × 22.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.71.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 29, State vii/ix

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Professor and Mrs. Daniel Bell, Cambridge; gift to NGA, 1993.

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.

Inscriptions

lower right below image in plate: ABesnard inv et fec; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 7/9; by later hand, lower right in graphite: D. 29 vii/ix

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q75124536

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