Art, literature & history
The Legend of the Wolves
1890s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and pastel on blue wove paper, edge mounted to paperboard
- Dimensions
- overall: 59.9 x 80.7 cm (23 9/16 x 31 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.128.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Rosa Bonheur. The Legend of the Wolves. Rosa Bonheur; 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:Rosa_Bonheur,_The_Legend_of_the_Wolves,_NGA_91278.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 Legend of the Wolves — Rosa Bonheur. 1890s.
Medium: charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and pastel on blue wove paper, edge mounted to paperboard.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 59.9 x 80.7 cm (23 9/16 x 31 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.128.2. Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation.
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.