Art, literature & history
The Velvet Dress
1873
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint on Asian laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.2 x 16.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.) sheet: 30.2 x 20 cm (11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8464
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Velvet Dress. 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
The Velvet Dress — James McNeill Whistler. 1873.
Medium: drypoint on Asian laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.2 x 16.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.) sheet: 30.2 x 20 cm (11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8464. 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.