Art, literature & history
La Mère Gérard
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.7 × 8.89 cm (5 × 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 22.7 × 18.26 cm (8 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.316
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. La Mère Gérard. 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
La Mère Gérard — James McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: etching in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.7 × 8.89 cm (5 × 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 22.7 × 18.26 cm (8 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.316. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1928).
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.