Art, literature & history
The Silk Gown (La robe de soie)
1887
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 36.8 × 23.7 cm (14 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 47.5 × 32.6 cm (18 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1475
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. The Silk Gown (La robe de soie). 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,_The_Silk_Gown_(La_robe_de_soie),_1887,_NGA_4619.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Silk Gown (La robe de soie) — Albert Besnard. 1887.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 36.8 × 23.7 cm (14 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 47.5 × 32.6 cm (18 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1475. 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.