Art, literature & history
Back of a Woman (Dos de Femme)
1889
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and roulette on Van Gelder laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 13 x 8.8 cm (5 1/8 x 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 17.2 x 13.5 cm (6 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1993.71.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Back of a Woman (Dos de Femme). 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,_Back_of_a_Woman_(Dos_de_Femme),_1889,_NGA_83821.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Back of a Woman (Dos de Femme) — Albert Besnard. 1889.
Medium: etching and roulette on Van Gelder laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13 x 8.8 cm (5 1/8 x 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 17.2 x 13.5 cm (6 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1993.71.4. 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.