Art, literature & history
An Old Man Reading
1642
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 21 x 16.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 22.6 x 17 cm (8 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.60.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ferdinand Bol. An Old Man Reading. Ferdinand Bol; 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:Ferdinand_Bol,_An_Old_Man_Reading,_1642,_NGA_75745.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
An Old Man Reading — Ferdinand Bol. 1642.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 21 x 16.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 22.6 x 17 cm (8 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.60.5. Gift of Ruth B. Benedict.
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.