Art, literature & history
Horses Being Led to Water on a Winding Riverbank
1771
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.7 x 17.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.) sheet: 19.5 x 24.1 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.44.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Nicolas Pérignon. Horses Being Led to Water on a Winding Riverbank. 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,_Horses_Being_Led_to_Water_on_a_Winding_Riverbank,_1771,_NGA_86117.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Horses Being Led to Water on a Winding Riverbank — Nicolas Pérignon. 1771.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.7 x 17.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.) sheet: 19.5 x 24.1 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.44.5. 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.