Art, literature & history
Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval)
1855
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph on chine collé on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 51 × 35 cm (20 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 58.9 × 42.9 cm (23 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.134.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Gustave Doré. Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval) — Gustave Doré. 1855.
Medium: lithograph on chine collé on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 51 × 35 cm (20 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 58.9 × 42.9 cm (23 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.134.3. Gift of the Prouté Family in Honor of Andrew Robison.
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.