Art, literature & history
The Boy
c. 1873/1875
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint on laid paper
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8473
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Boy. 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
The Boy — James McNeill Whistler. c. 1873/1875.
Medium: drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8473. 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.