Art, literature & history
The Toilet
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithotint in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 26 × 16.4 cm (10 1/4 × 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 38.2 × 26.3 cm (15 1/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8665
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Toilet. 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,_The_Toilet,_1878,_NGA_11162.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Toilet — James McNeill Whistler. 1878.
Medium: lithotint in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 26 × 16.4 cm (10 1/4 × 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 38.2 × 26.3 cm (15 1/16 × 10 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8665. 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.