Art, literature & history
The Harbor of Piraeus
1891
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and watercolor over black chalk and touches of graphite heightened with gray
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26.4 x 36.2 cm (10 3/8 x 14 1/4 in.) support: 33.7 x 48.8 cm (13 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1977.6.22
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Themistocles von Eckenbrecher. The Harbor of Piraeus. Themistocles von Eckenbrecher; 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:Themistocles_von_Eckenbrecher,_The_Harbor_of_Piraeus,_1891,_NGA_56254.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 Harbor of Piraeus — Themistocles von Eckenbrecher. 1891.
Medium: pen and black ink and watercolor over black chalk and touches of graphite heightened with gray.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall: 26.4 x 36.2 cm (10 3/8 x 14 1/4 in.) support: 33.7 x 48.8 cm (13 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1977.6.22. Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer.
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.