Tag Archives: Paul-Albert Besnard’s etching

Illuminating addiction: morphinomania in fin-de-siècle visual culture

Natalia Vieyra Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States     Paul-Albert Besnard, Morphinomanes ou Le Plumet, 1887 Etching and drypoint, plate: 9 5/16 x 14 inches (23.75 x 35.6 cm) Sheet: 12 5/8 x 17 5/8 inches (32.1 x 44.8 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1980 The etchings of Paul-Albert […]