Art, literature & history
A Muse
1815/1818
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal and white chalk heightened with white on pinkish-tan paper, squared for transfer
- Dimensions
- overall: 50.1 x 47 cm (19 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2006.154.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Vanderlyn. A Muse. John Vanderlyn; 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_Vanderlyn,_A_Muse,_1815-1818,_NGA_136169.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Muse — John Vanderlyn. 1815/1818.
Medium: charcoal and white chalk heightened with white on pinkish-tan paper, squared for transfer.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 50.1 x 47 cm (19 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2006.154.1. Gift of the Monica and Hermen Greenberg Foundation in honor of Monica Lind Greenberg.
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.