Art, literature & history
Gretchen at Heidelberg
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in dark brown on green/grey laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20.48 x 15.56 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 26.67 x 20.96 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.5.523
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Gretchen at Heidelberg. 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
Gretchen at Heidelberg — James McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: etching in dark brown on green/grey laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 20.48 x 15.56 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 26.67 x 20.96 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.523. 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.