Art, literature & history
Woman in a Cape (La femme à la pèlerine)
1889
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, and roulette on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.5 × 16 cm (9 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 29.2 × 21.6 cm (11 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.9135
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Woman in a Cape (La femme à la pèlerine). 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,_Woman_in_a_Cape_(La_femme_%C3%A0_la_p%C3%A8lerine),_1889,_NGA_11644.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Woman in a Cape (La femme à la pèlerine) — Albert Besnard. 1889.
Medium: etching, drypoint, and roulette on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.5 × 16 cm (9 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 29.2 × 21.6 cm (11 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.9135. Rosenwald Collection.
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.