Art, literature & history
La Femme (frontispiece)
c. 1886
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint on Van Gelder laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 31.9 × 24.7 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 48 × 32.4 cm (18 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1464
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. La Femme (frontispiece). 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,_La_Femme_(frontispiece),_c._1886,_NGA_4608.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
La Femme (frontispiece) — Albert Besnard. c. 1886.
Medium: etching and aquatint on Van Gelder laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 31.9 × 24.7 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 48 × 32.4 cm (18 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1464. 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.