Art, literature & history
The Wave (La Vague)
1894
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 34.8 × 54 cm (13 11/16 × 21 1/4 in.) sheet: 46.2 × 63.9 cm (18 3/16 × 25 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2023.67.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Maxime Maufra. The Wave (La Vague). Maxime Maufra; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Purchased for the Virgina and Ira Jackson Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Wave (La Vague) — Maxime Maufra. 1894.
Medium: etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing on tan wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 34.8 × 54 cm (13 11/16 × 21 1/4 in.) sheet: 46.2 × 63.9 cm (18 3/16 × 25 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2023.67.2. Purchased for the Virgina and Ira Jackson Collection.
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.