Art, literature & history
Nocturne
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithotint in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 17.3 × 26.5 cm (6 13/16 × 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 19.3 × 27.9 cm (7 5/8 × 11 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8663
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Nocturne. 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,_Nocturne,_1878,_NGA_11160.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Nocturne — James McNeill Whistler. 1878.
Medium: lithotint in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 17.3 × 26.5 cm (6 13/16 × 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 19.3 × 27.9 cm (7 5/8 × 11 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8663. 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.