Art, literature & history
La Vieille aux Loques
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on pale blue paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 20.32 x 14.92 cm (8 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.31 x 20.96 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1982.44.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. La Vieille aux Loques. 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 Vieille aux Loques — James McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: etching and drypoint on pale blue paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 20.32 x 14.92 cm (8 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.31 x 20.96 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1982.44.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.