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The Suicide (Le Suicide)

Albert Besnard

National Gallery of Art

This is a print of a person crouched on the edge of a bridge with a road on the left, with a horse-drawn cart passing over it and the skyline of a city in the distance. The road stretches into the distance, bordered by the outlines of tall buildings. The person in the center is hunched over, with their head resting on their arms, as they sit on the edge of what appears to be a bridge or elevated path. The edge of the bridge falls off in a sheer drop toward the bottom-right corner, and we can’t see what is below it.

Artwork Details

Date
c. 1886
Medium
etching in black with plate tone on laid paper
Dimensions
3410 × 4368 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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