Self-Portrait, 1893

Not on View

Medium

collotype in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 17.2 x 11.7 cm (6 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.)
plate: 21.1 x 14.1 cm (8 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

sheet: 32 x 24.7 cm (12 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, undescribed

Accession Number

1993.71.6

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

center right in plate: Besnard / 1893.; by later hand, across bottom in graphite: FROM ROGER-MARX BOOK ON BESNARD REPROD/ Self-Portrait; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Portrait; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: ya

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

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.