Art, literature & history
The Cup of Tea (La tasse de thé)
1883
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint with monoprint inking on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.1 x 26.5 cm (7 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2005.151.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. The Cup of Tea (La tasse de thé). Albert Besnard; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Cup of Tea (La tasse de thé) — Albert Besnard. 1883.
Medium: etching and drypoint with monoprint inking on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.1 x 26.5 cm (7 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2005.151.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.