Misery (La Misère), c. 1886

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.9 x 24.7 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 51.5 x 32.2 cm (20 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 55, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1996.136.4

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

lower right in graphite: ABesnard; lower left in graphite: Tiré à 100; by later hand, lower center in graphite: D55

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.