Art, literature & history
The Portico of the National Gallery, London
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint on laid paper; first state of two
- Dimensions
- sheet: 17 5/8 x 11 7/16 in. (44.7 x 29 cm) plate: 15 3/16 x 8 9/16 in. (38.5 x 21.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 24.73.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Tissot. The Portico of the National Gallery, London. James Tissot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Portico of the National Gallery, London — James Tissot. 1878.
Medium: Etching and drypoint on laid paper; first state of two. Dimensions: sheet: 17 5/8 x 11 7/16 in. (44.7 x 29 cm) plate: 15 3/16 x 8 9/16 in. (38.5 x 21.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924.
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.