Art, literature & history
Barbara Van Beck, the Bearded Lady
1658
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22.9 × 15.5 cm (9 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1951.11.645
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Robert Gaywood. Barbara Van Beck, the Bearded Lady. Robert Gaywood; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Barbara Van Beck, the Bearded Lady — Robert Gaywood. 1658.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.9 × 15.5 cm (9 × 6 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1951.11.645. Rosenwald 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.