Art, literature & history
The Artist's Wife Reading in Bed
1885/1890
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on wove paper, laid down
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.111.107
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Leopold von Kalckreuth. The Artist's Wife Reading in Bed. Leopold von Kalckreuth; 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:Leopold_von_Kalckreuth,_The_Artist%27s_Wife_Reading_in_Bed,_1885-1890,_NGA_139272.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 Artist's Wife Reading in Bed — Leopold von Kalckreuth. 1885/1890.
Medium: watercolor over graphite on wove paper, laid down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.111.107. Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Merritt P. Dyke.
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.