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Albert Besnard

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

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Medium

etching, drypoint, false-biting, softground etching, and roulette on Arches laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.8 x 31.7 cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

sheet: 32.9 x 44.9 cm (12 15/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, undescribed, State vii/?

Accession Number

1996.136.14

Artists / Makers

Albert Besnard (artist) French, 1849 - 1934

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Inscription

all by later hands, lower left in graphite: 7e Et; lower right in graphite: G.M.D

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bell, Daniel, Professor

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.

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