Art, literature & history
Pierre Copies the Virgin from the Portal of the Church of Marly (Pierre Copie la Vierge du Portail de L'Église de Marly)
1885
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 13.6 × 8.1 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.) plate: 17 × 10.5 cm (6 11/16 × 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 31 × 22.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1993.71.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Pierre Copies the Virgin from the Portal of the Church of Marly (Pierre Copie la Vierge du Portail de L'Église de Marly). 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,_Pierre_Copies_the_Virgin_from_the_Portal_of_the_Church_of_Marly_(Pierre_Copie_la_Vierge_du_Portail_de_L%27%C3%89glise_de_Marly),_1885,_NGA_83814.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Pierre Copies the Virgin from the Portal of the Church of Marly (Pierre Copie la Vierge du Portail de L'Église de Marly) — Albert Besnard. 1885.
Medium: etching in black on cream laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 13.6 × 8.1 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.) plate: 17 × 10.5 cm (6 11/16 × 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 31 × 22.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1993.71.1. 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.