Art, literature & history
Greeting Grandmother (Le Bonjour à la Grand-mère)
c. 1926
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, false-biting, softground etching, and roulette on Arches laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 24.8 x 31.7 cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.) sheet: 32.9 x 44.9 cm (12 15/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.136.14
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Greeting Grandmother (Le Bonjour à la Grand-mère). Albert Besnard; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Greeting Grandmother (Le Bonjour à la Grand-mère) — Albert Besnard. c. 1926.
Medium: etching, drypoint, false-biting, softground etching, and roulette on Arches laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 24.8 x 31.7 cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.) sheet: 32.9 x 44.9 cm (12 15/16 x 17 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.136.14. 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.