Art, literature & history
The Tragic Actor (L'acteur tragique)
1866
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1951.13.13
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Édouard Manet. The Tragic Actor (L'acteur tragique). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Tragic Actor (L'acteur tragique) — Edouard Manet. 1866.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1951.13.13. Gift of Mrs. Jane C. Carey in memory of her mother, Mrs. Addie Burr Clark.
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.