Art, literature & history
The Old Peasant Girard
1772
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 28.2 x 20.9 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 37.5 x 27.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.9.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. The Old Peasant Girard. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Jacques_de_Boissieu,_The_Old_Peasant_Girard,_1772,_NGA_93715.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Old Peasant Girard — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1772.
Medium: etching and aquatint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 28.2 x 20.9 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 37.5 x 27.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.9.1. 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.