Art, literature & history
Gretchen Murdering Her Child
1852
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 43.18 × 32.7 cm (17 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.272
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Emanuel Leutze. Gretchen Murdering Her Child. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze; 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:Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze,_Gretchen_Murdering_Her_Child,_1852,_NGA_185014.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Gretchen Murdering Her Child — Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. 1852.
Medium: pen and brown ink on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 43.18 × 32.7 cm (17 × 12 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.272. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist, 1917).
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.