Art, literature & history
Venus
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 14.9 x 22.2 cm (5 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.1 x 31.1 cm (9 7/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8437
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Venus. 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
Venus — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.
Medium: etching and drypoint on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 14.9 x 22.2 cm (5 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.1 x 31.1 cm (9 7/8 x 12 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8437. 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.