Art, literature & history
Lagoon: Noon
1879/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.38 x 20.32 cm (4 7/8 x 8 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 13.34 x 20.32 cm (5 1/4 x 8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8552
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Lagoon: Noon. James McNeill Whistler; 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:James_McNeill_Whistler,_Lagoon_-_Noon,_1879-1880,_NGA_11049.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Lagoon: Noon — James McNeill Whistler. 1879/1880.
Medium: etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.38 x 20.32 cm (4 7/8 x 8 in.) sheet (includes tab with signature): 13.34 x 20.32 cm (5 1/4 x 8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8552. 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.