Art, literature & history
En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish)
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11.43 × 17.78 cm (4 1/2 × 7 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.2611
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Singer Sargent. En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish). John Singer Sargent; 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_Singer_Sargent,_En_Route_pour_la_p%C3%AAche_(Setting_Out_to_Fish),_1878,_NGA_184331.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish) — John Singer Sargent. 1878.
Medium: pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 11.43 × 17.78 cm (4 1/2 × 7 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.2611. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Irving Moskovitz, 1976).
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.