Art, literature & history
Whistler Asleep
1897
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint on pale green-gray paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.4 × 29.2 cm (7 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 21.2 × 32.9 cm (8 3/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.27.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Boldini. Whistler Asleep. Giovanni Boldini; 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:Giovanni_Boldini,_Whistler_Asleep,_1897,_NGA_164006.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Whistler Asleep — Giovanni Boldini. 1897.
Medium: drypoint on pale green-gray paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 19.4 × 29.2 cm (7 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 21.2 × 32.9 cm (8 3/8 × 12 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.27.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.