Art, literature & history
Arctic Hare
c. 1841
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and graphite with watercolor and oil paint on paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 61 x 86.9 cm (24 x 34 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1951.9.10
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John James Audubon. Arctic Hare. John James Audubon; 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:John_James_Audubon,_Arctic_Hare,_c._1841,_NGA_39773.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Arctic Hare — John James Audubon. c. 1841.
Medium: pen and black ink and graphite with watercolor and oil paint on paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 61 x 86.9 cm (24 x 34 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1951.9.10. Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom.
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.