Art, literature & history
Dying Woman (La Mourante)
1885
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and roulette on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.9 x 24 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.6 x 38.1 cm (12 1/16 x 15 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1997.91.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Dying Woman (La Mourante). Paul-Albert Besnard; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Besnard,_Dying_Woman_(La_Mourante),_1885,_NGA_102115.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Dying Woman (La Mourante) — Albert Besnard. 1885.
Medium: etching and roulette on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 17.9 x 24 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.6 x 38.1 cm (12 1/16 x 15 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1997.91.3. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.