Art, literature & history
La Vieille aux Loques
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint; fourth state of four (Glasgow); late impression printed in black ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 3/16 × 5 13/16 in. (20.8 × 14.8 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 3/4 in. (27 × 19.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.21.75
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. La Vieille aux Loques. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
La Vieille aux Loques — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: Etching and drypoint; fourth state of four (Glasgow); late impression printed in black ink on cream wove paper. Dimensions: Plate: 8 3/16 × 5 13/16 in. (20.8 × 14.8 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 3/4 in. (27 × 19.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.