Art, literature & history
Misery (La Misère)
c. 1886
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, aquatint, drypoint, and printed tone on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 31.9 x 24.7 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 51.5 x 32.2 cm (20 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.136.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albert Besnard. Misery (La Misère). 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,_Misery_(La_Mis%C3%A8re),_c._1886,_NGA_98272.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Misery (La Misère) — Albert Besnard. c. 1886.
Medium: etching, aquatint, drypoint, and printed tone on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 31.9 x 24.7 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 51.5 x 32.2 cm (20 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.136.4. 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.