Art, literature & history
The Sick Mother (La mère malade)
1889
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.9 × 29.5 cm (7 13/16 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 30 × 34.6 cm (11 13/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1465
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. The Sick Mother (La mère malade). 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_Sick_Mother_(La_m%C3%A8re_malade),_1889,_NGA_4609.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 Sick Mother (La mère malade) — Albert Besnard. 1889.
Medium: etching and drypoint on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 19.9 × 29.5 cm (7 13/16 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 30 × 34.6 cm (11 13/16 × 13 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1465. 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.