Art, literature & history
Melancholy (Mélancolie)
1888
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and softground etching in brown on Arches laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.9 x 13 cm (5 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 32.6 x 25.2 cm (12 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.4.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Melancholy (Mélancolie). 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,_Melancholy_(M%C3%A9lancolie),_1888,_NGA_83820.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Melancholy (Mélancolie) — Albert Besnard. 1888.
Medium: etching and softground etching in brown on Arches laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.9 x 13 cm (5 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 32.6 x 25.2 cm (12 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.4.1. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell.
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.