Art, literature & history
The Scholar
1869
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk with stumping, heightened with white, on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 15.8 x 22.5 cm (6 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.47.68
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edmond Eugène Valton. The Scholar. Edmond Eugène Valton; 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:Edmond_Eug%C3%A8ne_Valton,_The_Scholar,_1869,_NGA_93071.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 Scholar — Edmond Eugène Valton. 1869.
Medium: black chalk with stumping, heightened with white, on blue wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 15.8 x 22.5 cm (6 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.47.68. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
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.