Art, literature & history
The Big Shower
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and roulette on chine collé on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.9 × 17.9 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 22.4 × 31.5 cm (8 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1964.8.1366
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Emmanuel Phélippes-Beaulieu. The Big Shower. Emmanuel Phélippes-Beaulieu; 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:Emmanuel_Ph%C3%A9lippes-Beaulieu,_The_Big_Shower,_1859,_NGA_48518.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 Big Shower — Emmanuel Phélippes-Beaulieu. 1859.
Medium: etching and roulette on chine collé on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.9 × 17.9 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 22.4 × 31.5 cm (8 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1964.8.1366. Rosenwald Collection.
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.