Art, literature & history
Old Women
1879/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall (trimmed to plate): 12.7 x 20.2 cm (5 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8556
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Old Women. 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,_Old_Women,_1879-1880,_NGA_11053.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Old Women — James McNeill Whistler. 1879/1880.
Medium: drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (trimmed to plate): 12.7 x 20.2 cm (5 x 7 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8556. 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.