Jules Destrée, 1917

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Medium

etching and drypoint on Arches laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.7 x 24.7 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 34 x 27.1 cm (13 3/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 178, State iii/vi

Accession Number

1993.71.12

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: [16?] 2e (crossed out) 3e état 1e épreuve; lower right in graphite: ABesnard; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 178; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 19528

Marks and Labels

(Albert Besnard stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 3440).

Provenance

artist's stamp (Lugt 67a); Vente Albert Besnard (stamped on verso, Lugt undescribed); Professor and Mrs. Daniel Bell, Cambridge; gift to NGA, 1993.

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.