Art, literature & history
Poor Boy Showing His Navel
1758
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20.2 × 13 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/8 in.) plate: 14.8 × 11.4 cm (5 13/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1976.52.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Daniel Chodowiecki. Poor Boy Showing His Navel. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki; 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:Daniel_Nikolaus_Chodowiecki,_Poor_Boy_Showing_His_Navel,_1758,_NGA_55851.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Poor Boy Showing His Navel — Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki. 1758.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 20.2 × 13 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/8 in.) plate: 14.8 × 11.4 cm (5 13/16 × 4 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1976.52.5. Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer.
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.