Art, literature & history
By the Balcony
1896
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 21.7 × 14.2 cm (8 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.) sheet: 28.5 × 21.9 cm (11 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1946.21.363
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. By the Balcony. 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,_By_the_Balcony,_1896,_NGA_33703.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
By the Balcony — James McNeill Whistler. 1896.
Medium: lithograph in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 21.7 × 14.2 cm (8 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.) sheet: 28.5 × 21.9 cm (11 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1946.21.363. 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.