Art, literature & history
A House and a Shaded Cottage on the Banks of a River
c. 1770
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.8 x 17.6 cm (4 5/8 x 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 19.3 x 23.1 cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.44.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Nicolas Pérignon. A House and a Shaded Cottage on the Banks of a River. Nicolas Pérignon; 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:Nicolas_P%C3%A9rignon,_A_House_and_a_Shaded_Cottage_on_the_Banks_of_a_River,_c._1770,_NGA_86118.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 House and a Shaded Cottage on the Banks of a River — Nicolas Pérignon. c. 1770.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.8 x 17.6 cm (4 5/8 x 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 19.3 x 23.1 cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.44.6. Ailsa Mellon Bruce 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.