Art, literature & history
Navigation (Allegory of the Navy)
1876
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black and white chalk with graphite on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 26.99 × 41.59 cm (10 5/8 × 16 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2019.29.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jules-Elie Delaunay. Navigation (Allegory of the Navy). Jules-Elie Delaunay; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Navigation (Allegory of the Navy) — Jules-Elie Delaunay. 1876.
Medium: black and white chalk with graphite on light brown wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 26.99 × 41.59 cm (10 5/8 × 16 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2019.29.1. Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment 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.