The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine"

1894

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 9 1/16 × 6 3/16 in. (23 × 15.7 cm) Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 1/16 in. (24.5 × 18 cm)
Collection no.: 17.3.204
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine". 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

The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine" — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1894.

Medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 9 1/16 × 6 3/16 in. (23 × 15.7 cm) Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 1/16 in. (24.5 × 18 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.

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.

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