Art, literature & history
Nocturne: Palaces
1879/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in brownish-black ink on Asian laid paper
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8534
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Nocturne: Palaces. 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,_Nocturne_-_Palaces,_1879-1880,_NGA_11031.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Nocturne: Palaces — James McNeill Whistler. 1879/1880.
Medium: etching and drypoint in brownish-black ink on Asian laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8534. 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.