Art, literature & history
La Muse Accoudée
1884
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on JCA France laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 22 × 16.8 cm (8 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.) plate: 23.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 7 in.) sheet: 31.6 × 23.6 cm (12 7/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1485
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. La Muse Accoudée. 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_Muse_Accoud%C3%A9e,_1884,_NGA_4629.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 Muse Accoudée — Albert Besnard. 1884.
Medium: etching on JCA France laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 22 × 16.8 cm (8 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.) plate: 23.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 7 in.) sheet: 31.6 × 23.6 cm (12 7/16 × 9 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1485. 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.