Greeting Grandmother (Le Bonjour à la Grand-mère), c. 1926

Not on View

etching, drypoint, false-biting, and softground etching in black on laid paper

plate: 24.7 x 31.6 cm (9 3/4 x 12 7/16 in.)

sheet: 32.5 x 39.9 cm (12 13/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

Delteil, undescribed, State v/?

1996.136.13

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

by later hand, lower left in graphite: 5e Et; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 1er etat-? bonjour à la Gd-mère

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 1996.

Bell, Daniel, Professor

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.