Art, literature & history
The Retrieve
1850
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 76.5 × 102.6 cm (30 1/8 × 40 3/8 in.) framed: 94 × 119.7 × 7.6 cm (37 × 47 1/8 × 3 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.79.29
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
William Tylee Ranney. The Retrieve. National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Retrieve — William Tylee Ranney. 1850.
Medium: oil on canvas.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 76.5 × 102.6 cm (30 1/8 × 40 3/8 in.) framed: 94 × 119.7 × 7.6 cm (37 × 47 1/8 × 3 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.79.29. Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869).
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.