Art, literature & history
The Bite
1914
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.7 × 27.6 cm (7 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 27.7 cm (7 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.4 × 40.9 cm (10 7/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1963.305
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edvard Munch. The Bite. Edvard Munch; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Bite — Edvard Munch. 1914.
Medium: Etching on cream wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 19.7 × 27.6 cm (7 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 27.7 cm (7 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.4 × 40.9 cm (10 7/16 × 16 1/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.