Art, literature & history
The Bells
1905
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint and colored pencil on laid paper [touched proof]
- Dimensions
- plate: 20 x 15.2 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 46.5 x 32.4 cm (18 5/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.9.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Fernand Khnopff. The Bells. Fernand Khnopff; 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:Fernand_Khnopff,_The_Bells,_1905,_NGA_139736.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Bells — Fernand Khnopff. 1905.
Medium: drypoint and colored pencil on laid paper [touched proof].
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 20 x 15.2 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 46.5 x 32.4 cm (18 5/16 x 12 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.9.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.