Sadness

1887

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Image and Plate: 14.9 x 9.8 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 27.5 x 18.4 cm (10 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.); Matted: 30.5 x 23.8 cm (12 x 9 3/8 in.)
Collection no.: 2016.107
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Albert Besnard. Sadness. Albert Besnard; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art

About this artwork

Sadness — Albert Besnard. 1887.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Image and Plate: 14.9 x 9.8 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 27.5 x 18.4 cm (10 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.); Matted: 30.5 x 23.8 cm (12 x 9 3/8 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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