The Forge, Passage du Dragon

1894

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; fourth state of four (Chicago); printed in black ink on off-white wove proofing paper
Dimensions: image: 8 3/4 x 6 5/16 in. (22.2 x 16 cm) sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 13/16 in. (28.7 x 22.4 cm)
Collection no.: 29.107.113
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Forge, Passage du Dragon. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Forge, Passage du Dragon — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1894.

Medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; fourth state of four (Chicago); printed in black ink on off-white wove proofing paper. Dimensions: image: 8 3/4 x 6 5/16 in. (22.2 x 16 cm) sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 13/16 in. (28.7 x 22.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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