Venus
A nude woman lies on her side across a rumpled bed, head propped on one arm and her face turned toward the viewer. Loose, hatched lines in etching and drypoint suggest the bedding, a dark curtain at upper right, and the soft modeling of the figure.
Look closer: The artist's monogram and date are written in the lower left corner.
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight off-white fibrous wove paper; first state of two (Glasgow)
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 3733 × 2539 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1859).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917