Art, literature & history
La Belle Dame Endormie (The Beautiful Woman Asleep)
1894
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 7 15/16 × 6 1/8 in. (20.2 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 11/16 in. (21.7 × 19.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1985.1161.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. La Belle Dame Endormie (The Beautiful Woman Asleep). Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
La Belle Dame Endormie (The Beautiful Woman Asleep) — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1894.
Medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 7 15/16 × 6 1/8 in. (20.2 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 11/16 in. (21.7 × 19.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985.
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.