Art, literature & history
The Venetian Mast
1879/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (includes tab with signature): 34.29 × 16.19 cm (13 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8529
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Venetian Mast. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Venetian Mast — James McNeill Whistler. 1879/1880.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (includes tab with signature): 34.29 × 16.19 cm (13 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8529. 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.