Art, literature & history
Refugee Family
1922
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint with aquatint printed with plate tone on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 28 × 35 cm (11 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 34.2 × 41 cm (13 7/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.425
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Wilhelm Oesterle. Refugee Family. Wilhelm Oesterle; 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:Wilhelm_Oesterle,_Refugee_Family,_1922,_NGA_153820.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Refugee Family — Wilhelm Oesterle. 1922.
Medium: drypoint with aquatint printed with plate tone on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 28 × 35 cm (11 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 34.2 × 41 cm (13 7/16 × 16 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.425. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
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.